ERG
Raffinerie Mediterranee SRL licenses ExxonMobil's process for upgrading
gas oils to cat cracking feed
Posted: 23 June 2003
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (EMRE) announced ERG
Raffinerie Mediterranee SRL has selected EMRE's GO-fining(1) technology
to hydrotreat the feed to their Fluid Catalytic Cracker (FCC) which
will result in the improvement of overall FCC performance and their
capabilities to produce 10 ppm sulfur mogas.
The new grass roots unit is to be built at their Raffineria ISAB,
Priolo Gargallo (Sicily), Italy location and will have a throughput
of 25,000 barrels per calendar day.
EMRE's GO-fining technology upgrades gas oils to cat cracking feed
ready for processing.
Feedstocks can include virgin, thermal, cat cycle and deasphalted
gas oils for sulfur/nitrogen removal, conversion to clean products
(mild hydrocracking) and fluid catalytic cracking feed pretreatment.
Each GO-fining unit is designed by ExxonMobil engineers to meet
refiners' process requirements through the latest advanced compositional
process modeling of the unit performance.
Design flexibility for feed fouling is achieved through ExxonMobil's
proprietary internal bed by-pass design. An inter-bed quench box
can be designed for either treat gas or liquid quenching.
Total system optimization continues right through to construction
utilizing materials with modern catalyst bed thermocouple installations
and facility reliability and maintenance criteria incorporated into
the designs.
With the commercialization of at least two dozen units, ExxonMobil
has gained broad cat feed hydrotreating experience, including ten
units processing thermally-cracked feedstocks.
EMRE is the research and engineering arm of ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM),
a leading global oil, natural gas, and petrochemicals company whose
subsidiaries have operations in nearly 200 countries and territories.
For more information see www.exxonmobil.com/refiningtechnologies.
ERG is the largest independent Italian group in the energy and
petroleum sectors and is quoted on the Italian Stock Exchange.
It is active in the processing of crude oil, in the distribution
of petroleum products and production of electric power.
Today it accounts for 22 per cent of Italian refining capacity
and it is the second operator in Italy in the sector.
ERG sales, in the domestic market, account for 9 per cent of the
national oil products consumption. (BUSINESS WIRE)
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
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