Exxonmobil delays Singapore base oil capacity expansion

ExxonMobil has delayed plans to increase Group II base oil production capacity at its Singapore Jurong refinery by two years to 2025.

The company plans to increase the Jurong facility's production capacity for Group II EHC 50 light-grade and EHC 110 heavy-grade base oils by 20,000 b/d (1mn t/yr), it said. A large volume of this increased capacity will be the high-viscosity Group II base stock EHC 120, which is currently produced at ExxonMobil's Rotterdam, Netherlands refinery. But the additional capacity for each grade from the expansion has not been disclosed.

The company expects to have a total capacity of 3.25mn t/yr by 2025, with most of this capacity for the production of Group II base oils.

This follows a series of Group II capacity expansions at ExxonMobil's Jurong refinery in recent years, including an expansion at the Jurong facility in 2019. That expansion increased the Singapore refinery's Group II capacity by 100,000 t/yr, after an expansion of nearly 300,000 t/yr at the same facility in 2015.

By Jane Liu