Manufacturing Industry
Conoco Ups Stake In Malaysian Ulsd Refinery
Diesel Fuel News, March 5, 2001
By buying out Statoil's 15% stake, Conoco just boosted its holding in an ultra-low-sulfur diesel (ULSD) refinery that's 45% part-owned by Malaysia's Petronas.
About 18,000 barrels/day of diesel from the two-year-old Melaka, Malaysia, refinery is ULSD (50 ppm cap) "and more typically, 20 ppm," refinery general manager John Nixon told Diesel Fuel News. This stream also meets tough California Air Resources Board (CARB) specifications for distillation.
Another 35,000 b/d of diesel from the plant meets a more conventional low-sulfur (500 ppm or lower) specification, but not the distillation or pour point limits required for cold-weather winter performance, Nixon said.
The refinery uses Conoco's proprietary delayed coking technology for upgrading low-cost heavy feeds to higher-margin clean products, "making it one of the most economically competitive refineries in the region," Conoco says. It also aims to maximize diesel production for the "toughest environmental standards."
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