Project Profile
Value: $500 Million
Startup Month and Year: Q1 2013
Refinery: 275,000 bbl/day
Paraxylene: 590,000 tonne/year
Benzene: 177,000 tonne/year
Crude distillation capacity: 410,000 bpsd (barrels per stream day)
Thai Oil own and operate the largest single-site refinery in Thailand with a capacity of 275,000 barrels per day of crude oil and other feedstocks, representing approximately 25% of the total refining capacity in Thailand. The company also own a petrochemical plant, which produces 489,000 tons per annum of Paraxylene, 90,000 tonnes per annum of Mixedxylene, 177,000 tonnes per annum of Benzene and 144,000 tonnes per annum of Toluene.
The upgrade is called PSA-3 project. The objectives of the project are to give the refinery more flexibility in the crudes it can process, specifically to enable the refinery to process higher sulfur crudes, to upgrade fuel oil to more valuable end products and to meet new sulfur oxides (SOx) emissions regulations coming into force in Thailand. The residue production will be reduced through the application of deep cut vacuum technology, which helps mitigate the effects of heavier crude slates. New sour gas handling facilities will be installed, including a sulfur recovery unit and a tail gas treatment unit, and hydrogen production capacity will be expanded by installation of a new pressure swing adsorption unit.
Operator:
Thai Oil
Contractors:
Amec Foster Wheeler: EPC
- FEED contract for Clean Fuel Project at the Sriracha Refinery.
- installation of a number of new units, including Amec Foster Wheeler’s Solvent Deasphalting technology. (August, 2016)
Saipem: Unloading services