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(Honeywell) -- UOP LLC, a
Honeywell company, announced that Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum
Industries (Orpic) has selected UOP/Foster Wheeler technology to help process
heavy oil and expand fuel and petrochemicals production at a refinery in Sohar,
Oman.
Orpic will use the UOP/Foster Wheeler Solvent
Deasphalting (SDA) process technology to convert heavy crude to low-contaminant
deasphalted oil, a product that is further processed in refineries to produce
liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), gasoline, jet fuel, diesel and propylene. The new
unit will process 2.5 million metric tonnes per year of heavy crude to
significantly increase the refinery’s production of valuable petroleum products.
Honeywell’s UOP and Foster Wheeler in collaboration will
provide the technology license and basic engineering package for the new unit,
which is expected to start up in 2015.
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