马国油表示新建炼厂将按在年底开始商业运营

据烃加工在线11月21日消息，国有石油公司马来西亚国家石油公司(Petronas)表示，其与沙特阿美公司在马来西亚南部投资270亿美元的大型炼油厂和石化企业，按计划将在今年底前开始商业运营，从而消除了有报导称该炼油厂将推迟运营的传言。

马国油周三晚些时候在一封电子邮件中表示，该炼油厂4月份发生火灾的常压渣油脱硫装置(ARDS)将于2020年年中开始运行。

马国油向路透社表示:“公司希望澄清，边佳兰一体化工厂正处于启动阶段，预计如计划的那样，将于2019年底投入商业运营。”

上周，普氏能源咨询公司援引沙特阿美首次公开发行招股说明书中的言论称，火灾已将边佳兰炼油和石化公司(PRefChem)的投产推迟至2020年下半年。

该项目在4月份因火灾损坏了常压渣油脱硫装置而被关闭。

该项目包括一个日加工能力30万桶的炼油厂和一个年生产能力770万吨的石化综合设施。

庞晓华 摘译自 烃加工在线

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Petronas sees commercial production this year at refinery

State oil company Petronas said its massive refinery and petrochemicals complex in southern Malaysia, a $27-billion joint venture with Saudi Aramco, will start commercial operations as planned by the end of the year, dismissing a report of a delay.

The refinery’s atmospheric residue desulphurization (ARDS) unit, hit by a fire in April, will begin operation by mid-2020, Petronas said in an email late align="justify">“Petronas would like to clarify that its Pengerang Integrated Complex is in the middle of start-up activities and expected, as planned, to be in commercial operations by end of 2019,” it told Reuters.

Last week, Platts said the fire had delayed commissioning of Pengerang Refining and Petrochemical (PRefChem), a part of the complex, to the second half of 2020, citing Aramco’s comments in its prospectus for an initial public offering.

The project had been shut in April after fire damaged the atmospheric residue desulphurization unit.

It consists of a 300,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) oil refinery and a petrochemical complex with annual production capacity of 7.7 million tonnes.