ORC-I processes over 35,000 barrels of crude oil a day to produce different grade of petroleum products. The Refinery’s main merchandise are Liquefied Petroleum Gas, Gentle Naphtha, Heavy Naphtha, High Octane Mixing Part, Motor Gasoline, Kerosene, Jet Fuels, Excessive Velocity Diesel and Furnace Oil.
The refining process begins in the distillation towers. Here, liquids and vapors are separated into components according to weight and boiling level. Naphtha Hydrotreater of 3,000 BBLS capability is designed to supply feed for Catalytic Reforming unit which convert it to high octane motor gasoline. The Catalytic Reforming process result in higher octane fuels designed to meet the wants of as we speak’s engines.
Solely about forty percent of crude oil is comprised of the elements for the excessive-quality fuels we produce. The remaining components of crude are heavy, poor performing fuels and bought as gas oil. Kerosene, Light & Heavy Naphtha and LPG are additional handled to produce market grade specification fuels. Lastly, after greater than 20 hydrocarbons and additives have been blended into the gas, the finished merchandise are held in storage tanks, able to be shipped to clients.
Single Point Mooring
Single Point Mooring (SPM) is a loading buoy anchored offshore that serves as a mooring point and interconnect for the offloading of crude tankers. The system consists of floating hoses related from tanker to SPM, tied to Pipeline End Manifold (PLEM) via versatile hoses and PLEM related to a refinery storage tank by way of rigid undersea pipeline of (11.32 Km) and onshore pipeline of 2.9 Km.
Crude Distillation Unit
Crude oil is separated into fractions by fractional distillation. The fractions at the top of the fractionating column have decrease boiling factors than the fractions at the bottom. The entire fractions are processed further in different refining units.
Naphtha Hydrotreater Unit
Hydro treating is a catalytic refining process using a catalyst and hydrogen rich gas stream to take away about 99% of contaminants equivalent to nitrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and metals from straight run heavy naphtha. These contaminants if not removed from the petroleum fractions, travel through the refinery processing items; can have detrimental effects on the equipments, the catalysts, and the quality of the completed product. Sometimes, hydro treating is done prior to processes akin to catalytic reforming and isomerization in order that the catalyst shouldn’t be contaminated by untreated feedstock.
Reformer Unit
Catalytic reforming is an important process used to transform low-octane naphtha into high-octane gasoline mixing components known as Reformate. A Catalytic Reformer unit processes straight run naphtha with a boiling range of eighty-one hundred fifty C for enchancment of refinery of petroleum octane number. The method requires heating naphtha to a temperature of 482C to 520C after mixing with recycle Hydrogen and passing through a series of alternating furnaces and fastened-mattress reactors containing a platinum-rhenium catalyst within the vapor state. The feed naphtha is converted into excessive octane Reformate and Hydrogen. Reformate is used for MS blending whereas Hydrogen is separated from the reformate stream for recycling and used in other processes akin to for Hydrotreating.
Isomerization Unit
A element of refinery gasoline swimming pools that continuously presents the most effective alternative for high quality enchancment is the pentane-Hexane fraction, or gentle straight-run (LSR) naphtha. The LSR is characterized by a low octane quantity, ordinarily 60 to 70 analysis octane quantity (RON). Isomerization converts linear molecules equivalent to normal pentane into higher-octane branched molecules for blending into the top-product gasoline. This Process additionally removes Benzene from the feed. The isomerization unit is comprised of three sections, Feed Preparation, Penex and Molex and increases the octane from 65 to 90.
