PetroChina selects UOP technology for new refinery unit

May 5, 2004
PetroChina Co. Ltd. (PetroChina) has selected UOP LLC's Unicracking technology for a new hydrocracking unit to be built at Dalian Petrochemical Co. in Dalian, China. The project will expand PetroChina's total refinery capacity to 20 million tonnes/year.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, May 5 -- PetroChina Co. Ltd. (PetroChina) has selected UOP LLC's Unicracking technology for a new hydrocracking unit to be built at Dalian Petrochemical Co. in Dalian, China. The project will expand PetroChina's total refinery capacity to 20 million tonnes/year.

Basic engineering design of the unit is under way. Commissioning is slated for third quarter 2006.

Des Plaines, Ill.-based UOP's technology was chosen to produce high-quality diesel and jet fuel products from 71,000 b/sd of vacuum gas oil feedstock. The new unit will be configured as a single-stage recycle unit with parallel reactors, to process several alternate feedstocks over a wide conversion range, UOP said.