PetroChina Qinzhou refinery to enhance sour crude handling capacity in 2012

PetroChina Qinzhou refinery is expected to construct a total amount of six devices to enhance its capability to procedure sour crude in 2012, an educated source claimed.

The units consist of 4-mil-mt/yr residue hydrogenation-desulfuration unit, 2-mil-mt/yr gasoil hydro-upgrading device as well as 700,000-mt/ yr catalytic fuel hydrogenation-desulfuration unit, as well as 80,000-mt/ year MTBE unit, 260,000-mt/ yr sulfur recuperation device as well as a hydrogen generation system, according to the source.

With all of the above units on-stream, Qinzhou refinery would certainly improve combination of Saudi light, tool and also heavy crude, claimed the source.

Market sources reckoned Qinzhou refinery would branch out feedstock to reduce dependence on Sudan crude by then.

As reported earlier, website began operation at the end of this August. It prepared to process 700,000 mt of crude in October, with run price striking 73%.

Qinzhou refinery, or Guangxi Petrochemical, is the very first 10-mil-mt/yr oil refining task of PetroChina in southerly China. It is developed to primarily improve Sudan crude, which has 2.2-mil-mt/ year continual agitator, 2.2-mil-mt/ year hydrocracker as well as 3.5-mil-mt/ mt fluid catalytic cracker, besides the 10-mil-mt/yr CDU. It will generally supply oil products to Southwest China and also the export market. It is capable of generating 7-mil mt of oil products annually, over 50% of which were equivalent to Euro IV standards.