Honeywell (Morris Plains, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) announced that PT Pertamina (Persero) will use Honeywell UOP technology to produce high-octane gasoline blending components and jet fuel at its Balikpapan refinery in Kalimantan Timur, Indonesia.
The agreement includes licensing and engineering for a CCR Platforming unit with a capacity of 33,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) to produce cleaner-burning high-octane motor fuels and a Unionfining hydrotreating unit with a capacity of 47,000 (bbl/d) to produce kerosene jet fuel.
“The CCR Platforming unit at Balikpapan will be the eighth unit that Honeywell UOP has licensed to Pertamina, and the backbone of Pertamina’s supply of high-octane gasoline,” said Mike Millard, vice president and general manager, Process Technology and Equipment at Honeywell UOP. “This technology provides the highest possible yield of these fuels, while also producing 1.2 million tons a year of the petrochemicals paraxylene and benzene.”
The technologies provided by Honeywell UOP will help Indonesia meet that growing domestic demand while upgrading to Euro IV clean fuel specifications and phasing out production of 88 RONC gasoline.
As part of the same project, Pertamina awarded Honeywell UOP with a contract to expand capacity of its existing Unicracking units at Balikpapan to 60,000 bbl/d. These units provide eastern Indonesia’s domestic supply high-quality diesel fuel.
Honeywell UOP also is currently installing a modular CCR Platforming unit at the company’s Cilacap refinery that will allow Cilacap to produce 91,000 bbl/d of 92 RON-C gasoline.