BAR-CO Procceses joint Venture, a partnership between a subsidiary of Coastal Corp. of Houston and D.A.R.T. Inc., has signed an agreement to market three refining technologies in the Commonwealth of Independent States.
BAR-CO's license and marketing agreement with the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Oil Refining (VNII NP) and the Ministry of Chemical and Oil Refining Industries covers the:
- Discriminatory destructive distillation process, a process for upgrading the bottom of the barrel as well as heavy crudes and tar sands to high quality products. Coastal said this process, licensed by BAR-CO, is particularly suited as a wellhead unit to convert very heavy hydrocarbons into high quality syncrudes.
- Millisecond catalytic cracking (MSCC) process, which uses a catalyst-liquid contacting system for an improved yield structure compared with conventional fluid catalytic cracking unit operations. The MSCC process, also licensed by BAR-CO, can process residual oil feedstocks that are heavier and have a higher metal content than those currently processed in the latest FCCUs.
- Adsorpcionaia kontaktnaia ochistka (AKO) process. This is a new process developed and licensed by VNII NP to upgrade heavy crudes and residual oils. Coastal said VNII NP's AKO unit will enable a refiner to maximize production of high value transportation fuels.
VNII NP, Moscow, is a scientific and technological center with three divisions and four plants.
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