China’s Hengyi Petrochemical Co Ltd has started trial operations at its new refinery and petrochemical facilities in Brunei, as stated in the Reuters report.
The new plant in Palau Muara Besar consists an 8 million tonne per year crude oil refinery (160,000 barrels per day), a 1 million tonne per year aromatics plant and a 500,000 tonne per year benzene facility, the report added.
“All the facilities are entering trial operations and commercial production is expected to start fairly soon,” it added.
The refinery will also produce nearly 6 million tonnes of gasoline, diesel and aviation fuel combined annually.
Hengyi Petrochemical ’s is the 4th refinery to commence production in Asia this year, the report added.
Pengerang Refining and Petrochemical (PrefChem), a joint venture between Malaysia’s state oil and gas firm Petronas and Saudi Arabia’s state-owned Aramco, started trial runs at its 300,000 bpd refinery in southern Malaysian state of Johor in April.
In China, private chemical giant Hengli Petrochemical ramped up its 400,000-bpd new refinery to full operations in May and another privately-run Zhejiang Petrochemical started pilot productions at a similar-sized plant around the same time.
Source: Reuters
