{"id":2549,"date":"2019-06-27T11:59:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T03:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.benalec.com.my\/2019\/06\/27\/petronas-saudi-jv-to-restart-crude-unit-at-malaysia-refinery-in-july\/"},"modified":"2019-10-25T13:37:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T05:37:45","slug":"petronas-saudi-jv-to-restart-crude-unit-at-malaysia-refinery-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benalec.com.my\/zh-hans\/petronas-saudi-jv-to-restart-crude-unit-at-malaysia-refinery-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Petronas-Saudi JV to restart crude unit at Malaysia refinery in July-Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>CNBC<br \/>\n27th June, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE\/KUALA LUMPUR, June 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Pengerang Refining and Petrochemical (PrefChem), a joint venture between Petronas and Saudi Aramco, is expected to restart a crude distillation unit at its oil refinery in Malaysia in July, three sources familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n<p>The Pengerang Refining development, part of Petronas\u2019 $27 billion Pengerang Integrated Complex, consists of a 300,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) oil refinery and a petrochemical complex with a production capacity of 7.7 million tonnes per year in the southern Malaysian state of Johor.<\/p>\n<p>The refinery stopped trial runs in April for safety checks after a fire occurred at the atmospheric residue desulphurisation (ARDS) unit.<\/p>\n<p>Contractors are still assessing the extent of damage at the fire-hit ARDS unit and repairs could take between three months and two years, one of the sources said, citing initial estimates.<\/p>\n<p>The CDU will be processing low-sulfur crude in the absence of the desulphurisation unit, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The ARDS unit was set up to remove sulfur from fuel oil which is then passed through a residue fluid catalytic cracker (RFCC) &#8211; a secondary refining unit that upgrades residual fuels into higher quality products such as gasoline. The ARDS unit is located close to the refinery\u2019s CDUs.<\/p>\n<p>The refinery is expected to produce fuel in August-September although output may not meet commercial specifications yet. A 1.2-million-tonnes-per-year naphtha cracker at the site started trial runs this month.<\/p>\n<p>By restarting the CDU in July, the refinery is working towards producing fuel that meets commercial specification by the end of the year, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The project, originally known as RAPID, or Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development, was to resume operations by the end of this year, Petronas said in a statement last month.<\/p>\n<p>Petronas and PrefChem have not responded to emailed requests for comment. (Editing by Christian Schmollinger\/ Tom Hogue\/Susan Fenton)<\/p>\n<p>Source :\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/06\/27\/reuters-america-update-2-petronas-saudi-jv-to-restart-crude-unit-at-malaysia-refinery-in-july-sources.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/06\/27\/reuters-america-update-2-petronas-saudi-jv-to-restart-crude-unit-at-malaysia-refinery-in-july-sources.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNBC 27th June, 2019 SINGAPORE\/KUALA LUMPUR, June 27 (R [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2476,"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\/2549"}],"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=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.benalec.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2556,"href":"https:\/\/www.benalec.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions\/2556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benalec.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benalec.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benalec.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benalec.com.my\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}