PetroChina Fushun Petrochemical plans to process 620,000mt of crude in October, with daily throughput up by about 25% month on month to 20,000mt, according to a source with the refinery.
The refinery resumed normal production after completing temporary maintenance of a 1.5-mil-mt/yr residue fluid catalytic cracker (RFCC) on Sep 24, the source explained.
The refinery cut crude throughput notably in September because of the maintenance, which started on Sep 3.
Fushun Petrochemical is likely to hike crude throughput by around 30% after starting operation of some secondary units in late October at earliest, the source said. These units include a 2-mil-mt/yr hydrocracker, 1.8-mil-mt/yr gasoil hydrogenation unit and 800,000-mt/yr gasoline & kerosene refining unit, he said.
The refinery is expected to reduce crude throughput by 20% year on year to 6.8-7.0-mil mt in 2011, because of the explosion of the above-mentioned RFCC in early 2011 and the shutdown of 3.5-mil mt of annual refining capacity.
Fushun Petrochemical, a major refinery in Northeast China’s Liaoning Province, has 8-mil mt of annual topping capacity of and runs mostly on domestic Daqing and Liaohe crude. The refinery is expected to bring an 800,000-mt/yr ethylene unit on stream at the end of June 2012.
