Case Study
Opportunity Crudes Refinery Treatment
CHEMICAL TOOLS SOLVE INTRACTABLE PROCESSING PROBLEMS A 100,000 BPD refinery originally designed for lighter crudes struggled with serious desalter performance problems and unacceptably low throughput when processing blends of relatively heavy, acidic feedstocks, including Dar, Ratawi, Eocene, Duri, Stybarrow and Enfield. When a costly combination of five chemicals from a competitor failed to solve the problem, the refinery consulted a global te