Shell Convent refinery hydrocracker may be shut two months
(Reuters) - The heavy-oil hydrocracker at Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s 209,787 barrel-per-day (
Shell spokesman Ray Fisher said planned work was being performed at the Convent refinery, but declined to identify the unit involved.
The 45,000-
Shell also brought forward planned work scheduled to be done the H-Oil Unit in June 2019, the sources said. The planned June 2019 overhaul was scheduled to last 40 days.
The hot spot may indicate a hole could develop in the reactor wall, the sources said.
The H-Oil Unit is an atypical hydrocracker that uses hydrogen and a catalyst under high heat and pressure to convert residual crude oil into motor fuels, especially diesel.
Residual crude is normally processed by coking units. Most hydrocrackers use gas oil as a feedstock.
Reporting by Erwin Seba in Houston; Editing by Lisa Shumaker and James Dalgleish
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