Volume 121, Issue 9b

Sept. 18, 2023 | Trafigura Group Pte. Ltd.’s Trafigura Argentina SA plans to install a new IsoTherming hydrotreating unit from Elessent Clean Technologies Inc. for increased production of cleaner, ultralow-sulfur diesel with a maximum sulfur content of 10 ppm at subsidiary Refinería Bahía Blanca SAU’s 27,000-b/d Ricardo Eliçabe refinery in Argentina’s port city of Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires province. To be designed for optional co-processing of renewable feedstock, the hydrotreating unit is scheduled for startup in 2025-26. Photo from El Consorcio de Gestión del Puerto de Bahía Blanca.