27 November 2017
Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC)
is a new subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC)
set up by State of Kuwait to manage
refinery, petrochemicals and LNG import operations
in the Al-Zour complex
DETAILS
Honeywell (NYSE: HON) announced today that
Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC)
will use a range of process technologies from Honeywell UOP,
for the expansion of its refining and petrochemical complex
at Al-Zour, south of Kuwait City.
Honeywell UOP will supply
* technology licenses,
* design services,
* key equipment, and
* state-of-the-art catalysts and adsorbents
to produce
** clean-burning fuels,
** paraxylene,
** propylene and other petrochemicals.
The project includes
* a 50,000 barrels per day (bpd) RFCC complex
with ethylene and propylene recovery, and
* a 24,000 bpd Honeywell UOP SelectfiningTM unit
to produce low-sulfur gasoline.
* Two Honeywell UOP Merox™ units will be used to treat
propane for propylene production, and
isobutane to make clean-fuels blending components,
including MTBE produced by a UOP Ethermax™ unit.
* Also included is a Butamer™ unit
to convert normal butane to isobutane.
The contract also includes
* a 66,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) CCR Platforming™unit
with a 74,000 bpd naphtha hydrotreater
to make gasoline blend stock, and
* an LD Parex™ aromatics complex — including
the Honeywell UOP Sulfolane™, Isomar™ and Tatoray™ processes –
to make 1.4 million metric tons per year of paraxylene,
a primary ingredient in plastics.
In addition,
* an Oleflex™ propane dehydrogenation unit
will produce 660,000 metric tons per year
of polymer-grade propylene
– another basic component in the production of plastics,
synthetic rubber and gasoline additives.
John Gugel,
Vice President and General Manager
Process Technology and Equipment at Honeywell UOP
“When completed, this will be
the largest integrated refinery and petrochemicals plant
ever constructed in Kuwait,”
“In addition to aromatics and propylene,
the Euro-V fuels it will produce will be
the cornerstone of Kuwait’s clean fuels initiative.”
Contact:
John Simley
847-391-2278
john.simley@honeywell.com
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