The units comprise 4-mil-mt/yr residue hydrogenation-desulfuration unit, 2-mil-mt/yr gasoil hydro-upgrading unit and 700,000-mt/yr catalytic gasoline hydrogenation-desulfuration unit, as well as 80,000-mt/yr MTBE unit, 260,000-mt/yr sulfur recovery unit and a hydrogen generation unit, according to the source.
With all of the above units on-stream, Qinzhou refinery would refine mixture of Saudi light, medium and heavy crude, said the source.
Market sources reckoned Qinzhou refinery would diversify feedstock to reduce reliance on Sudan crude by then.
As reported earlier, Qinzhou refinery started operation at the end of this August. It planned to process 700,000mt of crude in October, with run rate hitting 73%.
Qinzhou refinery, or Guangxi Petrochemical, is the first 10-mil-mt/yr oil refining project of PetroChina in southern China. It is designed to mostly refine Sudan crude, which has 2.2-mil-mt/yr continuous reformer, 2.2-mil-mt/yr hydrocracker and 3.5-mil-mt/mt fluid catalytic cracker, besides the 10-mil-mt/yr CDU. It will mainly supply oil products to Southwest China and the export market. It is capable of producing 7-mil mt of oil products per year, over 50% of which were equivalent to Euro IV standards.
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