French Axens Won Contract to Upgrade Assiut Oil Refining Company

French Axens Won Contract to Upgrade Assiut Oil Refining Company

Egypt’s Assiut Oil Refining Company (ASORC) plans to upgrade its refinery, located 400km south of Cairo, French petrochemicals engineering firm Axens said on Tuesday.

Axens, which won a contract for the project, said that the upgrade will include the addition of a complex for the production of high octane gasoline.

Axens will supply technologies for a naphtha hydrotreater, a continuous catalytic reformer, and a C5/C6 isomerization unit with deisohexanizer recycle unit, it said.

In addition, it will provide catalysts, adsorbents, equipment and technical support.

“The capacity of the project is 660,000 tonnes/year of naphtha processed,” it added.

The refinery’s existing processing capacity stands at 4.5m tonnes/year of distillation crude.

Source: ICIS

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