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MAKFining Alliance Offers Premium Diesel Technologies
Dallas, Texas - The MAKFining Alliance, made up of Mobil Technology Company, Akzo Nobel Catalysts, Kellogg Brown & Root and Fina Research SA, announces the addition of Premium Distillate Technologies, refining process technologies designed to produce premium distillate products. These technologies complete MAKFining's family of hydroprocessing, dewaxing and hydrocracking technologies. MAKFining's family of technologies enables refiners to produce premium distillate products from feedstocks ranging from light diesels to heavy vacuum, cracked, and extracted gas oils.
MAKFining Premium Distillate Technologies includes heavy distillate hydrocracking, dewaxing, hydrotreating, hydrodearomatization and low pressure hydrocracking with isomerization. These technologies provide the refiner cost effective solutions to meet the stringent distillate fuel specifications anticipated in Europe by the year 2005 as well as in other parts of the world.
The premium distillate technologies utilize the outstanding line of hydroprocessing catalysts already available through MAKFining and new catalysts including KF200, a sulfur resistant dearomatization catalyst jointly developed by Akzo Nobel and Fina Research, and the advanced STARS catalyst technology recently developed by Akzo Nobel / Nippon Ketjen. Two new high activity catalysts using STARS technology, KF 757 and KF 848, have demonstrated commercially the capability of meeting specifications for premium diesel products, including sulfur levels of 50 parts per million and lower.
MAKFining Premium Diesel Technologies support our customers' plans to meet market demands for premium distillate products with a comprehensive offering of advanced catalyst technology, process design, and engineering capabilities, supported by extensive operating experience.
Mobil Technology Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mobil Corporation, headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, USA. It is one of the world's largest, integrated energy companies with global activities in all phases of the petroleum industry: exploration and producing, marketing and refining and chemicals. Mobil's developments in hydrocracking and dewaxing technologies date back to the 1960s and are commercially proven in its current operation of hydrocrackers and catalytic dewaxing units and units licensed around the world.
Akzo Nobel Catalysts is one of the core business units of Akzo Nobel, a global chemical company based in The Netherlands with companies in more than 50 countries. The catalysts group, including its joint ventures Nippon Ketjen of Japan, FCC-S.A. of Brazil, and the Eurecat companies, has more than 40 years of comprehensive manufacturing and distribution experience and is well established in hydrotreating, hydrocracking and fluid catalytic cracking catalysts, as well as catalysts for the petrochemical industry. The company's website can be accessed at www.akzonobel-catalysts.com.
Kellogg Brown & Root, a Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL), is an ISO-9001-certified, technology-based international engineering and construction company that provides a full spectrum of industry-leading services to the hydrocarbon, chemical, energy, forest products, manufacturing, and mining and minerals industries. Halliburton Company is one of the world's largest diversified energy services, engineering, construction, maintenance and equipment companies.
Fina Research S.A., headquartered in Belgium, is the corporate research center of PetroFina S.A. PetroFina S.A. is a Belgian integrated oil and petrochemical company and operates its major refineries and chemical plants in Europe and the Gulf Coast area in the US. Fina Research S.A. has successfully developed processes for use by the PetroFina affiliates and licenses process technologies to outside companies. Fina, in joint effort with Akzo Nobel, have successfully licensed dewaxing technology around the world.
Contact
Art Gentry
Kellogg Brown & Root
(p) 713.753.4875
Rob van der Meij
Akzo Nobel Catalysts
(p) 281.283.1548
Zelma Branch
Halliburton
(p) 713.676.7067
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