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MAKFINING PREMIUM DISTILLATES TECHNOLOGY
SELECTED FOR OMV GERMAN REFINERY
DALLAS, Texas - Kellogg Brown & Root, a business unit of Halliburton Company (NYSE:HAL), is pleased to announce that MAKFining Premium Distillates Technology (MPDT) has been chosen by OMV Deutschland GmbH for production of premium diesel in its refinery at Burghausen, Germany. The application of MPDT will utilize a combination of MAKFining catalyst systems and will be capable of producing diesel to achieve the most stringent quality specifications anticipated in Europe.
When completed, OMV's project will be a grassroots unit capable of processing up to 67 t/hr (metric tons per hour or 12,000 BPD) of atmospheric distillate and gas oil feedstocks to produce high quality diesel motor fuel with less than 10 ppmw sulfur content. The project will employ the proprietary MAKFining Isomerization DeWaxing (MIDW) system, optimized for deep desulfurization, cloud point reduction and high yield of diesel. The design of the plant incorporates provisions for future modifications that will make the unit capable of providing further improvements in the diesel quality, specifically cetane improvement and reduction of density, T95 boiling point and poly-nuclear aromatics content. Both the initial and future configurations utilize a single stage reaction section with no need for intermediate stripping.
The OMV project demonstrates the flexibility that MAKFining offers to the refining industry for production of highest quality fuels to meet new environmental regulations. The key to this project is the MIDW process developed by Mobil Technology Company and is currently operating in four commercial units in refineries around the world. MIDW utilizes a unique catalyst that improves cold flow properties by isomerization and achieves extraordinarily high yields of dewaxed diesel with minimum naphtha production. The MIDW catalyst system is capable of single stage processing of feeds with substantial sulfur and nitrogen, and achieves pour point reduction while also removing the sulfur and nitrogen to very low levels. The MIDW catalyst acts in concert with the new STARS hydrotreating and hydrocracking catalysts supplied by Akzo Nobel Catalysts. Basic engineering design for the unit was executed in Kellogg Brown & Root's Houston, Texas office.
MAKFining is the global hydroprocessing technology alliance between Mobil, Akzo Nobel Catalysts, Kellogg Brown & Root, and Fina Research S.A. The alliance unites the resources and combines the experience of four technology leaders in the refining industry. The result is leading edge hydroprocessing technology for conversion and product upgrading in the modern refinery. The two principal product lines are MAKFining Hydrocracking and MAKFining Premium Distillates Technologies. The MPDT family of catalyst and process technologies is designed to meet all current and possible future diesel upgrading requirements.
OMV Deutschland GmbH operates a petrochemical refinery in Burghausen, Germany. It is a subsidiary of OMV Aktiengesellschaft, Austria's largest company in the oil and gas business. Crude oil capacity is about 3.4 million tons a year (or about 72,000 BPD). Its products range from ethylene, propylene and benzene from steam cracking of naphthas to middle distillate products (Jet Fuel, Diesel Fuel and Domestic Heating Oil) and calcined coke.
Mobil Technology Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation. ExxonMobil is headquartered in Irving, Texas, USA and 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. ExxonMobil's developments in hydrocracking and dewaxing technologies date back to the 1960's and are commercially proven through their successful operation of hydrocrackers and catalytic dewaxing units and licensed units around the world. Additional information regarding ExxonMobil's licensed technologies can be found at "http://www.exxon.mobil.com/research_technology.
Akzo Nobel Catalysts supplies top performance catalysts, technologies and related services to the oil refining and petrochemical industry. Together with its partners, it has leading positions in fluid cracking catalysts (FCC), hydroprocessing catalysts (HPC) and other specialized areas. The company's Web site can be accessed at http://www.akzonobel-catalysts.com.
Fina Research S.A. is an affiliate of TOTAL FINA ELF, the new major oil company resulting from the merging of TOTAL, PetroFina and ELF.
Headquartered in Houston, Kellogg Brown & Root is an international, technology-based engineering and construction company providing a full spectrum of industry-leading services to the hydrocarbon, chemical, energy, forest products, manufacturing, and mining and minerals industries. Kellogg Brown & Root is a business unit of Halliburton Company, the world's leading diversified energy services, engineering, energy equipment, construction and maintenance company. The company's World Wide Web site can be accessed at http://www.halliburton.com.
Contact
Wendy Hagan
Halliburton Company
Public Relations
(p) 713.676.5619
wendy.hagan@halliburton.com
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