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WORLD NEWS
IN BRIEF
March
2017
HYDROCARBON
ENGINEERING
6
China |
Honeywell technology selected for
petrochemicals project
Z
hejiang Petrochemical Co. Ltd.
(ZPC) will use process technology
from Honeywell UOP for a new
integrated refining and petrochemical
complex in Zhoushan, Zhejiang
Province.
Honeywell UOP will supply a
range of technologies in the form of
license, design, key equipment, and
state-of-the-art catalysts and
adsorbents, while Honeywell Process
Solutions will provide the process
controls and automation systems.
The complex will be located in
one of seven new large industrial
sites that are part of China's current
national economic development
plan. When completed, it will be the
largest crude-to-chemicals complex
in China and one of the largest in
the world. The complex will
produce petrochemicals, including
aromatics that are used to make
plastic resins, films and fibres that
are the basis for millions of
products.
The project includes a two-train
LD Parex
TM
aromatics complex – for
the production of 4 million tpy of
paraxylene.
The new plant will also include
an RFCC complex, using Honeywell
UOP's RCD Unionfining
TM
and RFCC
TM
processes to upgrade 5 million tpy of
residual oil into fuels. An Oleflex
TM
propane dehydrogenation unit will
produce 600 000 tpy of
polymer-grade propylene.
The project will also include a
hydrocracker to convert vacuum gas
oil into petrochemical feedstocks,
two CCR Platforming
TM
units to
produce aromatics and blend stocks
for making high-octane fuels, and a
Unionfining naphtha hydrotreating
unit to remove sulfur.
USA |
Venture Global LNG contracts GE
V
enture Global LNG Inc. has
selected GE Oil & Gas as a
strategic partner to provide a
plant-wide technology solution for its
LNG export facilities under
development in Louisiana.
Under the agreement, GE Oil & Gas
will leverage advanced technologies
from across the broader GE portfolio
to deliver a comprehensive power,
pretreatment and LNG liquefaction
system. The agreement provides for
the delivery of a complete LNG
process system with defined
schedule, price and performance
standards.
Lukoil has announced that it has
sold Lukoil Chemical B.V. In a short
statement released on its website,
the Russian oil company confirmed
that it has completed the sale of
its wholly owned subsidiary, which
is based in the Netherlands. Lukoil
Chemical owns the Karpatneftekhim
petrochemical plant, which is located
in Ivano-Frankovsk area of Ukraine.
Wison Engineering Ltd has signed a
collaboration agreement on R&D with
Haldor Topsoe. The two companies
have also embarked on an in-depth
discussion concerning a wider range
of collaboration in the fields of clean
energy, chemical development, new
technologies, engineering management
and market development.
D3MAX has announced the
completion and shipment of its pilot
plant employing the patented D3MAX
cellulosic ethanol technology. The
pilot facility was due to be installed
at ACE Ethanol LLC, in Stanley,
Wisconsin, in late February. Installation
is expected to be complete by
mid-March with startup and testing
at the facility taking place over the
ensuing two months.
Saudi Aramco has announced its
intention to launch a base oils
business, as part of its downstream
integration plan. The company is
aiming to optimise the value of its
petroleum molecules and grow its
refining and chemicals portfolio.
USA |
Tallgrass Energy connecting
Holly Frontier refinery
T
allgrass Energy Partners has
announced that Pony Express
Pipeline has reached an agreement with
Holly Frontier Corp. and its affiliates to
build facilities to connect Holly
Frontier’s refinery complex in El Dorado,
Kansas to the Pony Express Pipeline.
The El Dorado connection
facilities have been designed to meet
the needs of the El Dorado refinery
and will have a design capacity in
excess of 100 000 bpd for any of the
batched common stream crude types
transported by the Pony Express
Pipeline.
Construction of the connection
facilities is expected to be completed
by 4Q17.