MOBIL TO ADD UNITS AT SINGAPORE REFINERY

April 1, 1991

Mobil Corp. will spend more than $600 million to install new units at its 235,000 b/d Singapore refinery. Construction will consist of a continuous catalytic reformer (CCR) and an aromatics plant. The latter will get its feedstock from the refinery. Mobil Oil Singapore Pte. Ltd. will operate the complex, due on stream in third quarter 1993. The CCR will boost gasoline production by 17,000 b/d. Mobil last September completed a $100 million hydrocracker at the refinery.

Mobil Corp. will spend more than $600 million to install new units at its 235,000 b/d Singapore refinery.

Construction will consist of a continuous catalytic reformer (CCR) and an aromatics plant. The latter will get its feedstock from the refinery.

Mobil Oil Singapore Pte. Ltd. will operate the complex, due on stream in third quarter 1993.

The CCR will boost gasoline production by 17,000 b/d. Mobil last September completed a $100 million hydrocracker at the refinery.

The aromatics complex will produce 575,000 tons/year of chemicals to make polyester, nylon, and polystyrene. Aromatics production will include more than 275,000 tons/year of paraxylene and 175,000 tons/year of benzene/cyclohexane.

The complex also will produce smaller volumes of orthoxylene and solvents.

Mobil Petrochemical International, a marketing subsidiary of Mobil Chemical Co., will sell the aromatics throughout the Far East and Southeast Asia.