Saudi Aramco Delivers First Consignment of Arabian Crude to Qingdao Refinery
Posted on: Thursday, 12 June 2008, 03:00 CDT
Saudi Aramco has announced that the first delivery of Arabian heavy and medium crude has arrived at Sinopec's new Qingdao refinery in China, onboard the Xin An Yang tanker from Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia.
The Qingdao refinery has 16 key processing units, including a 200,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) crude distillation unit, a 22,000-bpd continuous reformer, a 133,000-bpd hydrocracker, an 83,000-bpd hydrorefining unit for kerosene and gas-oil, a 100,000-bpd residual oil hydrotreater and a 220,000-metric-ton-per-year sulfur recovery unit.
The refinery, built with a total investment of $1.79 billion, is expected to begin commercial operations in June 2008, after having undergone two months of test runs.
The refinery is designed to process 50% light and 50% heavy varieties of Arabian crude. It is capable of producing Euro-3 standard oil products and will mainly serve the north China market.
Source: Datamonitor
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