A large Asian Oil company, with the ambition to become highly integrated by combining its petrochemicals and refining activities, embarked in a large project to supply its Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA) plants with high purity paraxylene from its refinery side. Thanks to this new project, the company would become totally independent from third party supplier of petrochemical raw products to make PTA for PET application.
In addition to producing the world largest amount of high purity paraxylene, this “Crude-to-Paraxylene” (PX) complex with a processing crude capacity of 400,000 BPSD (barrels-per-day) will also produce a set quantity of final on-spec products such as gasoline and Group III lubes in order to meet local demand in clean fuels and lubes.
