S Oil Ulsan Refinery Residue Upgrading Project
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Summary Information
- Ownership: S Oil (Saudi Aramco and Hanjin Group)
- Website: http://www.s-oil.com/
- Wiki Page: S Oil Ulsan Refinery
- Location: Ulsan, South Korea
- Capacity: 33,5 million tons/annum & 669,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Project Stage: FEED (2014)
- Expected Completion: 201X
- Budget:
The Project
- Project Type: Upgrade of existing refinery
- Project Summary: The upgrade of the refinery includes the addition of a residue hydrodesulfurization unit, a residue fluid catalytic cracker and multiple downstream upgrading units to enable the refinery to produce more higher value products and, in particular, maximize production of polymer-grade propylene.
- Main Contractors
- Foster Wheeler: Front-end engineering design (FEED)
- Licences:
- Axens: Atmospheric residue desulfurization unit (Hyvahl™), High Severity FCC unit (HS-FCC™), LPG extractive sweetening unit (Sulfrex™), Gasoline desulfurization unit (Prime-G+™), A C4-stream processing section including a C4 selective hydrogenation unit, a MTBE unit, a super-fractionator and a butane isomerization unit.
Refining Units
- Residue Hydrodesulfurization Unit
- Residue fluid catalytic cracker
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- -
Products Produced
- Polymer-grade propylene
History
- 2014 - Foster Wheeler wins FEED for Upgrade Project
Other Information
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Relevant Links
- Foster Wheeler Awarded FEED Contracts By S-OIL Corporation For Residue Upgrading Project In South Korea
- Axens to supply technologies for S-OIL’s residue upgrading capacity expansion project
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