Essar’s Vadinar FCC set to be operational by Sept
28 June 2007 15:19 [Source: ICIS news]
SINGAPORE (ICIS news)--India's Essar Oil is expected to achieve commercial production from a fluid catalytic cracker (FCC) at its new 10.5m tonne/year, 210,000 bbl/day coastal refinery in Vadinar by September, a source close to the company said on Thursday.
The 2.9m tonne/year, 60,000 bbl/day FCC is expected to be commissioned in mid-August, with the stabilisation of feedstock set to be achieved later in the month. Previously it had been expected to come online by March.
When fully operational the FCC, and an associated 3.3m tonne/year, 68,000 bbl/day diesel hydrotreating unit, which is expected to come on stream at the same time, will enable the new refinery to process a diverse range of crude including high sulphur, acidic and heavy grades.
The FCC is planned to eventually provide feedstock for a yet to be built 250,000 tonne/year propylene extraction unit.
The Essar Oil refinery initially came on stream on 24 November 2006 following the start up of the refinery’s single 210,000 bbl/day crude distillation unit (CDU) and 105,000 bbl/day vacuum distillation unit (VDU).
In late January the refinery underwent a short shutdown to tie in and bring on stream a number of secondary units. These include a 900,000 tonne/year continuous catalytic reformer (CCR), a 1.9m tonne/year visbreaker, a 1.36m tonne/year naphtha hydrotreater and additional kerosene and gasoline treating facilities.
The Vadinar refinery was built at a cost of $2.2bn. The facility has its own dedicated 120 MW co-generation power plant, port and terminal facilities. The refinery is connected by a network of product pipelines to markets in the north and western regions of
By: James Dennis
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