Sinopec Jiujiang Petrochemical is scheduled to process 300,000mt of crude in December, with daily consumption sharply down 27% from the previous month, said a refinery source.
The refinery shut a 1-mil-mt/yr fluid catalytic cracker for 40-day maintenance in December, as reported earlier.
Jiujiang Petrochemical's 10-mil-mt/yr crude throughput capacity expansion project was recently approved by the National Development & Reform Commission, the source revealed. It has already started construction of the project and is expected to put it into production in 2013, according to the source. The refinery would increase annual capacity of a crude distillate unit from the current 1.5-mil mt to 5-mil mt; meantime, it would build a 2.4-mil-mt/yr hydrocracker, a 1.7-mil-mt/yr residue hydrogenation unit and a 70,000-mt/yr sulfur recovery unit, the source introduced. With all of the units on-stream, Jiujiang Petrochemical would have a secondary conversion capacity of 10-mil mt per year and it could not only satisfy oil product demand from Jiangxi, but also supply oil products to surrounding three provinces.
Jiujiang Petrochemical, located in Jiujiang City of Central China's Jiangxi Province, is equipped with two crude distillate units with annual capacities of 5-mil mt and 1.5-mil mt, respectively. It refined less than 5-mil mt of crude in 2009.
The refinery shut a 1-mil-mt/yr fluid catalytic cracker for 40-day maintenance in December, as reported earlier.
Jiujiang Petrochemical's 10-mil-mt/yr crude throughput capacity expansion project was recently approved by the National Development & Reform Commission, the source revealed. It has already started construction of the project and is expected to put it into production in 2013, according to the source. The refinery would increase annual capacity of a crude distillate unit from the current 1.5-mil mt to 5-mil mt; meantime, it would build a 2.4-mil-mt/yr hydrocracker, a 1.7-mil-mt/yr residue hydrogenation unit and a 70,000-mt/yr sulfur recovery unit, the source introduced. With all of the units on-stream, Jiujiang Petrochemical would have a secondary conversion capacity of 10-mil mt per year and it could not only satisfy oil product demand from Jiangxi, but also supply oil products to surrounding three provinces.
Jiujiang Petrochemical, located in Jiujiang City of Central China's Jiangxi Province, is equipped with two crude distillate units with annual capacities of 5-mil mt and 1.5-mil mt, respectively. It refined less than 5-mil mt of crude in 2009.
