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Refinery modifications to increase flexibility in treating heavy crudes and strong emulsions - several projects initiated? Add a comment »
Started by Mika K. S. Tienhaara, Vice President Separation Technologies at Aker Process Systems
Hi!
I have read that some major integrated oil companies have initiated activities to add crude treatment flexibility to their refineries, as the volumes of
heavy crude supplies will increase over the coming years.
Do you know which refineries that are being upgraded for this purpose?

I think the following refineries are under consideration:
Chevron Pascagoula
Chevron Kaltex South Korea
Chevron Richmond
ConocoPhillips ??
ExxonMobil??
Other?

By Mika K. S. Tienhaara, Vice President Separation Technologies at Aker Process Systems
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My comment, which resulted from the use of online research skills developed over a 30 year span as an information professional …

Saudi Aramco is active in this area ... take a look at the following article (small excerpt included in this post) ...
Excerpt from ...
Weekend Edition
June 6, 2008, 6:38 p.m. EDT • Recommend (9) • Post:
By Moming Zhou, MarketWatch
Saudi Arabia plans royal treatment for heavy crude
Kingdom to raise refining output, but plans may do little to ease high prices
"Outside Saudi Arabia, Saudi Aramco signed a contract with Sinopec and ExxonMobil early last year to upgrade a refinery in China's coastal Fujian
province to 240,000 barrels a day.
"In the United States, in a joint venture project with Royal Dutch Shell /quotes/comstock/13*!rds.a/quotes/nls/rds.a (RDS.A 54.06, +0.25, +0.47%) ,
Aramco is upgrading a Port Arthur, Texas, refinery to nearly double its capacity.
"Instead of selling heavy crude at a heavy discount, it makes more economic sense to sell petroleum products," Alhajji said"
source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/saudi-arabia-plans-royal-treatment-for-heavy-crude?pagenumber=2
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