KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a license and basic engineering design (LBED) contract by Hyundai Oilbank (HDO) for an 80,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) ROSE unit in Daesan, South Korea. The unit will be built using KBR’s proprietary ROSE technology, which provides supercritical solvent deasphalting (SDA), and will be the largest SDA unit in the industry.
Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide the license for use of ROSE technology, as well as basic engineering design and post-start up services. The unit is expected to come on-line around the end of 2018.
The ROSE unit will remove heavier fractions from crude oil, allowing the refinery to monetize a larger proportion of its oil intake into lighter, high-grade products, which will enhance HDO’s refinery margin.