{"id":2526,"date":"2019-01-07T12:35:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T04:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.benalec.com.my\/2019\/01\/07\/petronas-saudi-rapid-refinery-begins-trials-on-crude-oil-unit\/"},"modified":"2019-10-25T13:31:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T05:31:37","slug":"petronas-saudi-rapid-refinery-begins-trials-on-crude-oil-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benalec.com.my\/zh-hans\/petronas-saudi-rapid-refinery-begins-trials-on-crude-oil-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Petronas-Saudi RAPID refinery begins trials on crude oil unit- sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reuters<br \/>\n07th January, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE (Reuters) &#8211; Malaysian state oil company Petronas [PETR.UL] started trial runs at the crude distillation unit (CDU) for a joint-venture refinery with Saudi Aramco in Malaysia last week, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The move marks a major milestone for the $2.7 billion project known as RAPID &#8211; or Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development &#8211; located in Pengerang in Johor, at the southern tip of peninsular Malaysia. The test runs put the project on track for commercial operation in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The company also received its second cargo of 2 million barrels of Saudi crude last week, according to the sources and data on Refinitiv Eikon. Petronas could not be immediately reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>RAPID consists of a 300,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) refinery and secondary refining units that will allow the companies to produce refined oil products that meet Euro 5 fuel specifications. The refinery is linked to a petrochemical complex with a capacity of 7.7 million tonnes a year.<\/p>\n<p>The first crude oil cargo for RAPID was offloaded at Pengerang in September. The refinery is one of four new complexes in Asia that represent a combined processing capacity of nearly 1.3 million bpd scheduled to start up from late 2018 to 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Another of the four complexes, a 400,000-bpd refinery, owned by Hengli Petrochemical in Dalian in northeast China, started trial runs in December.<\/p>\n<p>These plants will increase Asia\u2019s crude demand while adding to fuel output in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Source :<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-malaysia-refinery-petronas-saudi-aram\/petronas-saudi-rapid-refinery-begins-trials-on-crude-oil-unit-sources-idUSKCN1P10NO\">https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-malaysia-refinery-petronas-saudi-aram\/petronas-saudi-rapid-refinery-begins-trials-on-crude-oil-unit-sources-idUSKCN1P10NO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters 07th January, 2019 SINGAPORE (Reuters) &#8211;  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benalec.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benalec.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benalec.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benalec.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benalec.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.benalec.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2529,"href":"https:\/\/www.benalec.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions\/2529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benalec.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benalec.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benalec.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benalec.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}