CDTECH Gasoline Desulfurization Unit Starts up in Greece

Business Wire, June 25, 2009

PASADENA, Texas -- CDTECH today announced that Hellenic Petroleum has successfully started a new 27,000 barrel per day fluid catalytic cracking gasoline desulfurization unit in Greece. The unit utilizes CDTECH technologies to produce ultra-low sulfur gasoline, which reduces vehicle emissions with minimum octane loss. In addition, this unit has the capability to produce a low sulfur diesel stream, which can be blended into the diesel pool. CDTECH’s CDHydro®/CDHDS® technology is unique in that it combines the reactor and distillation process into one piece of equipment resulting in lower investment and operating costs.

About CDTECH

Catalytic Distillation Technologies (CDTECH) is a partnership between Lummus Technology, a CB&I company (NYSE:CBI) and Chemical Research and Licensing, a part of CRI/Criterion Inc., the global catalyst technology company of Royal Dutch Shell plc. CDTECH develops and licenses advanced refining and petrochemical processes based upon its proprietary catalytic distillation technology. Technologies developed by CDTECH for the production of low sulfur and high octane blendstocks for use in reformulated gasoline are the leading technologies of choice worldwide. To access technical details visit Lummus Technology Fact Sheets