Assiut Oil Refining Co. (ASORC) of Egypt has selected Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France www.axens.net) to supply technologies for its refinery-upgrade project, which consist of a new complex for the production of high-octane gasoline. This project aims to satisfying domestic market needs for high quality gasoline.
For this project, Axens offered the following technologies: Naphtha Hydrotreater (NHT); continuous catalytic Reformer (CCR) using Axens Octanizing technology; and C5/C6 isomerization unit with deisohexanizer recycle unit.
In addition Axens, will provide catalysts, adsorbents, equipment and technical support. The processing capacity of the project is 660,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of naphtha.