S Oil Ulsan Refinery Residue Upgrading Project

Summary Information

• Ownership: S Oil (Saudi Aramco and Hanjin Group)
• Website: http://www.s-oil.com/
• Wiki Page: S-Oil Ulsan Refinery
• Location: Ulsan, South Korea
• Capacity: 33,5 million tons/annum & 669,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Project Stage: Completed 2019
• Budget: USD 4.2 billion

The Project

• Project Type: Upgrade of existing refinery
• Project Summary: The upgrade of the refinery includes the addition of a residue hydrodesulfurization unit, a residue fluid catalytic cracker and multiple downstream upgrading units to enable the refinery to produce more higher value products and, in particular, maximize production of polymer-grade propylene.
• Main Contractors
  • Foster Wheeler: Front-end engineering design (FEED)
• Licences:
  • Axens: Atmospheric residue desulfurization unit (Hyvahl™), High Severity FCC unit (HS-FCC™), LPG extractive sweetening unit (Sulfrex™), Gasoline desulfurization unit (Prime-G+™), A C4-stream processing section including a C4 selective hydrogenation unit, a MTBE unit, a super-fractionator and a butane isomerization unit.

Refining Units

• Residue Hydrodesulfurization Unit
• Residue fluid catalytic cracker
• Gasoline desulphurisation
• LPG desulphurisation
• Isomerization

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• There is no change to the crude supply

Products Produced

• Gasoline, , LPG, Polymer-grade propylene

History

• 2014 - Foster Wheeler wins FEED for Upgrade Project
• 2015 - Axens chosen for process units technologies
• 2019 - The project is completed

Other Information

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Links

1. Foster Wheeler Awarded FEED Contracts By S-OIL Corporation For Residue Upgrading Project In South Korea
2. Axens to supply technologies for S-OIL’s residue upgrading capacity expansion project
3. S-OIL ushers in a new era from “oil to chemical