Hengyuan's Malaysian refinery completes LRCCU repairs

Market: Oil products
04/07/24

China-based independent Hengyuan Refining (HRC) has completed repairs at the long residue catalytic cracking unit (LRCCU) at its Malaysian 156,000 b/d Port Dickson refinery on 30 June.

The LRCCU was shut after a leakage at a carbon monoxide boiler on 19 June. It is a gasoline production unit and typically uses residual fuel as a feedstock to produce full-range catalytic cracked gasoline (CCG).

Inspection activities for HRC's hydrogen manufacturing unit and Euro4Mogas facilities were also complete.

The refinery has restarted the units and is "recovering to its normal operational level", said HRC.

The LRCCU issue had prompted HRC to offer rare and prompt straight-run fuel oil cargoes, and buy gasoline cargoes for June and July loading.

The Port Dickson refinery houses two crude distillation units, a LRCCU, two naphtha treaters, a merox plan, two reformers and a gasoil treatment plant. Approximately 85pc of its oil products are sold domestically in Malaysia.

By Aldric Chew

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