Lukoil’s Sicilian refinery lets contract for hydrotreater revamp
ISAB SRL, a subsidiary of PJSC Lukoil of Russia, has let a contract to DuPont Clean Technologies, a division of E I DuPont de Nemours & Company, to provide technology licensing for the upgrade of an existing processing unit to enable production of ultra-low-sulphur fuel at its 320,000-b/d Priolo refinery in Sicily’s eastern province of Syracuse.
DuPont Clean Technologies will license its proprietary IsoTherming hydroprocessing technology to revamp the refinery’s trickle-bed diesel hydrotreater as part of a project to increase unit capacity to 31,000 b/sd as well as extend catalyst-cycle length, DuPont said on the 23rd February.
Alongside enabling production of low-sulphur fuels and extended length of catalyst life, the IsoTherming technology revamp also will allow ISAB the opportunity to process more-difficult cracked feedstock without sacrificing product quality or additional catalyst volume, according to the service provider.
Start-up of ISAB’s IsoTherming diesel hydrotreater at Priolo is scheduled to occur by 2024, DuPont said without disclosing further details of the project.
Lukoil assumed ownership of the Priolo refinery – which consists of three production sites interconnected via a system of pipelines – from former joint-venture partner ERG SPA in late 2013.
Source: Oil & Gas Journal