Kuwait has issued a tender offering three cargoes of low-sulfur fuel oil (LSFO) from its Al Zour refinery, ramping up volumes for January compared with previous months.
Hydrocarbon Processing sat down with Pinti Wang, President and CEO, GTC Vorro Technology, to get his insights on sulfur removal processes, technology licensing and other topics within the process industries.
The tightening of environmental norms and emissions specifications provides additional challenges to refining.
It is widely accepted that state-of-the-art sulfur recovery technologies utilize the modified Claus process as well as some extension technology on the tail gas.
Hydrocarbon Processing, the downstream processing sector’s leading technical publication for 100 yr, has announced the finalists for its sixth annual HP Awards, which celebrate innovative technologies and people that have been instrumental in improving facility operations over the past year.
Equipment malfunction or an unplanned shutdown of a SRU can have a significant effect on a production company’s profitability, along with an equally serious impact on personnel safety and the environment.
Jiang, Q.,
Sha, H.,
Song, H., SINOPEC Research Institute of Petroleum Processing;
Cui, S.,
Zhou, J.,
Cao, D., SINOPEC Refining Department;
Chen, H., SINOPEC Science & Technology Department;
Wang, S.,
Zhang, Y.,
Yang, L., SINOPEC Qingdao Refining & Chemical Co. Ltd.;
Wang, T.,
Kong, F.,
Wang, S., SINOPEC Catalyst Co. Ltd.
Sulfur oxides removal has been a global trend in the refining and petrochemical industry.
ExxonMobil’s methanol to gasoline (MTG) process selectively converts methanol to a single fungible liquid fuel and a small LPG stream. The liquid product is conventional gasoline with very low sulfur and low benzene, which can be sold as-is or blended with ethanol, methanol or with petroleum refinery stocks. This minimizes offsite and logistic complexity and investment for synthetic fuel distribution.
Marine fuel sales at the world's largest bunkering hub Singapore held steady at 4.12 MMt in August, with the number of vessel arrivals for bunkering little changed.
This final installment of the History of the HPI series details major events in the refining and petrochemicals industry over the past 20 yr, including stricter regulations/initiatives to curb carbon emissions, a safer and more environmentally friendly way to produce and handle chemicals, significant capital investments to boost production capacity and digital transformation.