By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, June 29 -- The Turkish Petroleum Refineries Corp. (Tüpras) has selected Axens of France, to provide gasoline upgrading technology at Tüpras's Izmit and Izmir refineries in Turkey.
Axens will install two 10,100 b/d Prime-G+ process units at the refineries to desulfurize nearly three million b/d of cracked gasoline and will provide a 24,000 b/d Benfree unit at the Izmit facility to reduce benzene in the gasoline.
The three units, slated to start up in fourth quarter 2006, are part of a Tüpras program to attain European gasoline specifications for ultralow sulfur and benzene.
