August 21, 2024 07:27 GMT
REFINING: China's New Yulong Refinery Starts Ethylene Unit Trial Run
REFINING
China’s major new refinery, Yulong started a trial run of the cracked gas compressor at a 1.5m-ton/yr ethylene unit on Aug. 15, according to the official China Industry News cited by Bloomberg.
- The 400,000 bpd petchem facility is understood to have bought 5.1mbbls of crude in recent months ahead of the start of test runs.
- In April, Yulong received 8.3 million metric tons of crude oil import quota for 2024.
- Phase I of the project includes capacity for 20m tons/yr of oil refining, 3m tons/yr of aromatics and 3m tons/yr of ethylene.
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