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Thursday, May 10, 2018
Sonatrach, Algeria’s state-run firm will use technologies from Honeywell UOP at its Skikda refinery. The new technologies will enable Sonatrach to meet growing domestic demand for high-octane gasoline and diesel fuel that meet Euro V standards for cleaner-burning fuels.
Honeywell will provide licensing, basic engineering design and other associated services for an 81,000 bpd UOP Unicracking™ unit and UOP/Foster Wheeler solvent deasphalting unit to produce ultra-low sulfur diesel. In addition, Honeywell will provide CCR Platforming™ and Penex™ isomerization units to convert 143,000 bpd of naphtha into cleaner-burning high-octane gasoline.
According to Honeywell UOP’s VP and GM of the company’s Process Technology and Equipment business, John Gugel, the technologies will aid Sonatrach in upgrading low-value feedstocks by efficiently converting them into Euro V diesel. “Sonatrach also will use an integrated Platforming and Penex process to produce high-octane gasoline without having to produce or import additives such as MTBE,” said Gugel.
The 24,100-bpd solvent deasphalting unit will produce deasphalted oil in addition to resin and pitch, which will be used to produce different grades of bitumen, the base material for asphalt and roofing materials.
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