SOCAR & Turcas Aegean refinery to implement Axens technology

SOCAR & Turcas Refining has selected Axens’ hydrotreating technologies for its Aegean refinery project in Izmir, Turkey. The three units under Axens design and fed by the effluents from an upstream coker are:  a 20,000 bpsd naphtha hydrotreater; a 26,000 bpsd Prime-K unit for jet fuel production; and  a 68,000 bpsd Prime-D unit for the production of 10 ppm sulfur diesel.

The refinery is scheduled to be commissioned in 2014 will have a capacity of 214,000 bpsd,  It will deliver intermediate products to the company PETKM for petrochemical use as well as Euro5 diesel for the local market.

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