MOSCOW (MRC) -- Honeywell's UOP and ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co. (EMRE) have finalized a technology licensing agreement with a subsidiary of Gazprom Neft, reported Hydrocarbonprocessing with reference to the companies' announcement.
The deal was arranged under a joint marketing alliance between UOP and EMRE.
The new technology will enable Gazprom to improve its production of refined distillates at its Moscow oil refinery. The refiner will combine UOP Distillate Unionfining hydroprocessing solutions with EMRE's distillate de-waxing technology to produce low-sulfur diesel.
The Moscow refinery will install a hydroprocessing unit using UOP and EMRE technology as part of the plant's modernization program. The project will integrate UOP Distillate Unionfining technology with EMRE's MIDW processes for de-waxing diesel feedstocks.
The addition of the hydrotreating unit will allow the refinery to produce fuel to meet more stringent Euro 5 emissions standards for motor vehicles.
This agreement marks the first project in Russia to be launched under the joint EMRE-UOP alliance formed in 2012.
As MRC wrote previously, this summe,r catalytic cracking and hydrotreating unit and light naphtha isomerisation unit have been put into operation at Gazprom Neft’s Moscow refinery. Commissioning of the new units enabled the refinery to switch to the production of Class-5 fuels, according to Russian motor fuel specifications (Russian equivalent of Euro-5) in 2013, 2,5 years ahead of schedule. The launch of both units marks completion of the first stage of the Moscow refinery modernisation programme aimed at improving the quality of its products.
"Gazprom Neft - Moscow Oil Refinery" is a subsidiary of "Gazprom Neftl". The plant's production capacity is 12.15 million tonnes of oil a year. The company manufactures automotive gasoline, diesel, marine and aviation fuel, fuel oil, high-octane additive to motor gasoline, bitumen and gas for various purposes, as well as polypropylene (PP).
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