Sinopec Maoming Petrochemical will begin construction of a 12-mil-mt/yr crude distillate unit at the end of November, according to a source with the refinery. This project has passed the environmental evaluation by the Ministry of Environmental Protection of the PRC, the source said.
The refinery plans to bring this CDU on line in 2012, he said.
Under the expansion project, Maoming Petrochemical will also build a 2.4-mil-mt/yr hydrocracker, 1.8-mil-mt/yr VGO hydrogenation unit, 400,000-mt aromatics extraction unit and 100,000-mt sulfur recovery unit, a record shows.
Maoming Petrochemical, a major refinery in South China, has a topping capacity of 13.5-mil mt/yr. It runs mostly on sour crude from the Middle East and provides oil products mainly to Southwest and South China.
The refinery plans to bring this CDU on line in 2012, he said.
Under the expansion project, Maoming Petrochemical will also build a 2.4-mil-mt/yr hydrocracker, 1.8-mil-mt/yr VGO hydrogenation unit, 400,000-mt aromatics extraction unit and 100,000-mt sulfur recovery unit, a record shows.
Maoming Petrochemical, a major refinery in South China, has a topping capacity of 13.5-mil mt/yr. It runs mostly on sour crude from the Middle East and provides oil products mainly to Southwest and South China.
