AM-96-56 A CASE STUDY: RESIDUE REDUCTION AT DEER PARK REFINING LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

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With input from Shell Synthetic Fuels Inc (SSFI), Deer Park Refining Limited Partnership (DPRLP) analyzed options for managing the “bottom of the barrel” to extinction, with an objective of high return on investment. DPRLP is a joint venture of PEMEX and Shell Oil Company. This Gulf Coast refiner processes 227M BBL/D of heavy, high sulfur crude. This paper will discuss the process options considered, their advantages and disadvantages, and the option selected as well as the options still open. Recent modernization projects at DPRLP are now on stream with high yield of clean products. There remains one by-product, petroleum coke, which presents opportunity as a low cost feed for one or more process options yielding attractive products. The Shell Coke (or Coal) Gasification Process is one of the options now being considered.