By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, July 16 -- Poland's Grupa Lotos SA, formerly Rafineria Gdañska SA, has signed an agreement with a group to develop a $600 million residue upgrading plant at Poland's second largest refinery. The process will enable the refinery to produce diesel fuel to future EU quality standards.
For the new facility Grupa Lotos will license and use a gasification process Shell Global Solutions International BV developed to convert high-sulfur residual oils into syngas, which will be used to produce hydrogen, steam, and power. The gasification and hydrocracking processes are scheduled to be in service in 2008.
The consortium implementing the project includes Shell Global Solutions, MW Kellogg-Kellogg Brown Root, and German firms DSD Industrieanlagen GmbH and Uhde GmbH.
