PetroChina Co. Ltd.—the publicly listed arm of state-owned China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC)—has let contracts to CB&I, Houston, for delivery of grassroots alkylation units to four of the operator’s Chinese refineries.
CB&I will supply technology licensing, engineering design, and patented equipment for the four new units, each of which will be equipped with CB&I’s proprietary CDAlky advanced sulfuric acid alkylation process technology, the service provider said.
A single unit will be installed at each of the following PetroChina subsidiaries’ refineries:
• Dalian Petrochemical Co.’s 20.5 million-tonne/year Dalian refinery in Liaoning province.
• Jilin Petrochemical Co.’s 10 million-tpy Jilin City refinery in Jilin province.
• Jinzhou Petrochemical Co.’s 7 million-tpy Jinzhou refinery in Liaoning province.
• Urumqi Petrochemical Co.’s 5 million-tpy Urumqi refinery in Xinjiang Uygar Autonomous Region.
The new CDAlky units come as part of PetroChina’s plan to produce lower-sulfur, higher-octane, alkylate to ensure compliance of gasoline and diesel production with more stringent global emission standards, including China 6-quality specifications (equivalent to Euro 6 specifications), which will cap the maximum sulfur content of fuels at 10 ppm beginning in 2020.
CB&I did not disclose details regarding contract values, project timeframes, or capacities of the proposed units.
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