Shell Pulau Bukom Refinery

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Summary Information

• Ownership: Shell
• Website: http://www.shell.com/
  • List of Shell Refineries
• Location: Bukom, Singapore
• Capacity: 25 million tons/annum & 500,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:

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Refining Units

• CDU 1, CDU 2, CDU 3, CDU 4:115,000 bpd, Total: 500,000
• Hydrocracker: 34,000 bpd
• Fluidised Catalytic Cracker - 37,400
• Long Residue Catalytic Cracking Unit: 5,300 Tons/day
• Platformer - 17,000 bpd
• Thermal cracker 33,000 bpd
• Visbreaker 33,000 bpd
• Gas oil Desulphurisation - 45,000
• Alkylation Units - 3,800
• Condensate splitter unit 70,000bpd

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• The refinery can handle a wide range of crude oil

Products Produced

• Gasoline
• Ultra-low sulfur diesel
• Jet fuel
• Fuel Oil

Ongoing Projects

• On March 24nd 2010, Shell announced that its new ethylene cracker had been started up successfully.
• The 100% Shell-owned ethylene cracker complex (ECC) has a capacity of 800,000 tonnes of ethylene per annum, as well as 450,000 tonnes of propylene and 230,000 tonnes of benzene.
• Shell Merichem technologies for a revamp project to treat Propane/Propylene, Butane/Butylene & Light Cat-Cracked Gasoline streams in order to meet final product specifications.

Other Information

• Some 90 percent of Bukom's products are exported to countries in the region and beyond.

History

• Shell set up Singapore’s first oil refinery in 1961
• 1972 - Sulfur Recovery Unit added
• 1990 - Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit & Alkylation UnitCommissioned
• 1994 - Addition of platformer unit + gas oil desulphurisation unit(Chiyoda)
• 2000 - A condensate splitter of 70,000 bpd is commissioned (Chiyoda)
• 2007 - FCC revamp project started
• 2010 - FCC is revamped to 37,400 bpd (Chiyoda)
• 2012 - Gas Oil desulphurisation unit & sulphur block completed

Relevant Links

1. Chiyoda Fluid Catalytic Cracking Units
2. Chiyoda Catalytic Reforming Units
3. Chiyoda Alkylation Units
4. Chiyoda Condensate Splitter Units
5. Chiyoda Sulfur Recovery Units
6. Chiyoda H2S Removal Units With Amine
7. Chiyoda Naphtha And Middle Distillate Hydrodesulfurization U
8. Chiyoda Claus Tail Gas Treating Units
9. Shell Singapore
10. Energy Efficiency in Bukom pdf
11. LRCC Efficiency Project
12. Maintenance News 2009 Reuters
13. Maintenance News 2007 Asia One
14. Chiyoda Singapore Projects
15. FIBER FILM® Contactor Technology Selected for Revamp Project in Shell Refinery in Singapore
16. Chiyoda: Award of EPCm Contract for Pulau Bukom Refinery Long Residue Catalytic Cracking Unit Revamp Project in Singapore
17. Fire in Pulau Bukom Manufacturing Site

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