Yongping refinery licenses UOP's technology

July 14, 2004
The Yanchang Oil Administration Bureau of Yanchuan, Shannxi Province, China, has licensed CCR Platforming technology from UOP LLC, Des Plaines, Ill., for use at the Yongping refinery.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, July 14 -- Yanchang Oil Administration Bureau of Yanchuan, Shannxi Province, China, has licensed CCR Platforming technology from UOP LLC, Des Plaines, Ill., for use at the Yongping refinery.

The CCR Platforming process produces a high octane gasoline blending product (OGJ, June 19, 2000, p. 48). UOP said that basic engineering work for a 20,000 b/d reforming unit in Shaanxi Province started this year.

Yanchang Oil Administration Bureau, a major oil producer in China, is in charge of the Yongping refinery.