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(main.omanobserver.om) -- Orpic announced yesterday that
three additional units will be included in the proposed Sohar Refinery Expansion
Project. The new expansion supported by the Government of Oman is expected to
improve the Sohar Refinery's product quality and increase output by more than 70
per cent.
Orpic’s CEO Musab al Mahruqi said, the latest additions to the
Sohar Refinery Expansion Project came to enhance the production of petroleum
products for local market and increase the gross margin for the refinery. Also,
the addition came in view of the latest improvised operating experiences gained
at Orpic.
Al Mahruqi added that Sohar Refinery has recently been
operating at high utilisation rates reaching 110 per cent of design capacity.
The improvement in utilisation rate has been incremental over the past few years
and 2011 marked the highest average utilisation rate for the refinery. 2011 has
also marked the second year for the commercial operation of the Aromatics plant
in Sohar. The average utilisation rate for the Aromatics plant in 2011 exceeds
90 per cent whereas the feedstock is partially supplied by Sohar
Refinery.
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The additional units will be added to the current configuration for the
Sohar Refinery Expansion Project which includes the following process units:
Crude Distillation (CDU), Vacuum Distillation (VDU), Hydrocracker (HCU), Sulphur
Recovery Units (SRU), Isomerisation (ISOM), PSA unit for Hydrogen, Sour water
strippers, Amine Regeneration Unit along with other treating units together with
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Perspectives of development of the polymers markets, pricing issues and other
important aspects will be discussed at The Polymers
Summit-2011, which will be held in Moscow on November 30, 2011 at the
Ritz Carlton Hotel. The Summit is organized by MRC with the support of ICIS. The
main idea of the Summit is to find a "the golden mean" between producers and
converters. When producers receive exactly such margin of production, which
helps them to invest in production expansion in order to substitute polymers
imports, and the converters receive such price of feedstock that helps them to
compete imported finished products. The Summit site gives an access to the live
video of the Summit, speakers" presentations, as well as opportunities to ask
questions or make appointments to any Summit partcipant.
mrcplast.com
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