Hydrocracking

Repairs continuing on hydrocracker at Marathon Galveston Bay Texas Refinery (U.S)

Repairs were continuing on Tuesday to a diesel-producing hydrocracker at Marathon Petroleum's 631,000-bpd Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas.

Russia`s Tatneft launches new hydrocracking unit on TANECO refinery

Russian mid-sized oil producer Tatneft has launched a new hydrocracking unit at its TANECO refinery.

Emulsion breaker increases refinery profitability and treating performance

This article details a novel emulsion breaker that was used at Reliance Industries Ltd.'s Jamnagar refinery in India.

Marathon to begin planned maintenance at Robinson, Illinois refinery

The refinery's primary crude unit, which processes both sweet and sour crude, will be down for maintenance, including heat exchanger work. The plant's 85,000-bpd diesel hydrotreater unit, 65,000-bpd vacuum distillation unit and 28,000-bpd hydrocracker unit will also undergo turnaround.

Synergize FCCUs and hydrocracking processing units to maximize refining margins

Synthetic graphite demand drives attractive techno-economics for coker upgrades

This article describes the economic opportunity that synthetic graphite demand growth presents for American and European refiners. It describes the conditions that best suit a plant to be considered for such a revamp. The article also discusses the modifications needed in capital equipment, process conditions and feedstock to execute this change, the typical capital expenditure required to materialize it, and the transformational gross profit enhancements that could result from these modifications, given the product slate upgrade.  

Ebullated bed hydrocracking: A process and mechanical upset scenario

The purpose of this article is to describe, analyze and suggest some technical peculiarities and criticalities that can affect the operation and safety of ebullated bed hydrocracking technology units—a process and mechanical upset scenario during emergency shutdown.

Shell restarting hydrocracker at Louisiana refinery (U.S.)

Shell began restarting the diesel-producing hydrocracker (HCU) at its 233,702-bpd refinery in Norco, Louisiana.

Air Products and Saneg announce $140-MM assets acquisition deal in Uzbekistan

The Fergana refinery in Uzbekistan is starting the industrial production of hydrogen (H2) by transferring its H2 production assets to Air Products.

Marathon to run refineries at 90% of combined capacity in Q3

U.S. crude oil refiner Marathon Petroleum plans to operate its 13 refineries at 90% of their combined 3 MMbpd capacity in the third quarter.