Motiva Enterprises LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Saudi Aramco’s Saudi Refining Inc. (SRI), has let a new contract to Praxair Inc., Danbury, Conn., to supply additional hydrogen to its 600,000-b/d Port Arthur, Tex., refinery, the largest in the US.
Under the agreement, Praxair will increase the amount of hydrogen it delivers to the refinery to support capacity expansions of a hydrocracker and diesel hydrotreater Motiva completed at the site in 2016 to increase production of ultralow-sulfur diesel and other clean transportation fuels, Praxair said.
Expanded hydrogen supply under the contract will also support other unidentified, ongoing needs of the refinery, the service provider said.
Praxair, which began delivering hydrogen to the Port Arthur refinery in 1992, disclosed neither a value of the contract nor the increased volume of hydrogen to be delivered under the agreement.
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