OMV Petrom commissions new unit at Petrobrazi refinery

OMV Petrom SA, Bucharest, has started up a new unit which converts LPG components into Euro 5-quality gasoline and middle distillates at its 90,400-b/d Petrobrazi refinery in the south-east region of Romania, near Ploiesti City.

At a final cost of €65 million, the new Polyfuel unit – which began production in March and is based on Axen SA’s proprietary PolyFuel technology – enables the refinery to shift as much as 50,000 tonnes of its current production of LPG components into higher-quality gasoline and diesel using a catalytic process, OMV Petrom said.

As originally planned, the Polyfuel unit – on which construction began in 2017 – was to include three main reactors, several absorbers, as well as columns and pumps, working together to convert LPGs and light-cracked naphtha from the refinery’s fluid catalytic cracking unit into diesel.

Source: Oil & Gas Journal