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Ecopetrol Selects Axens’ Hydrocracking and Coker Naphtha Hydrotreating Technologies
In order to enhance its processing capabilities of local heavy crudes while increasing clean fuels throughput, Ecopetrol has embarked into the modernization of its Barrancabermeja refinery (PMRB Project). The site is located in the Santander department of Colombia.

Lukoil to install the 200th Axens’ Prime-G+ Unit
Lukoil has selected Axens to provide the technology license for a new Prime-G+TM unit to desulfurize FCC gasoline at its Kstovo refinery in the Nizhny Novgorod region, Russia. The unit which has been designed to treat more than 1.1 million ton per annum (Mtpa) of cracked gasoline will produce a highoctane stream resulting in refinery gasoline pool sulfur levels as low as 10 ppm.

Axens Technologies for IRPC Public Company Limited in Thailand
IRPC Public Company Limited, a company specialized in the production of Petrochemical and Refining products in Thailand, selected Axens to supply technologies for its new Upstream Project for Hygiene and Value Added Product (UHV project). The complex is due to come on stream in 2015. The project aims at converting atmospheric residue to high value propylene and aromatics rich gasoline cut.

YANOS Commissioned the Catalytic Cracking Gasoline Hydrotreatment Unit
On December 28, OAO Skavneft-YANOS commissioned a new processing facility which is the Catalytic Cracking Gasoline Hydrotreatment Unit with a capacity of 800K tons/year. The service of this facility is to decrease the sulfur content in gasoline and to keep its high-octane rating.

The facility consists of ten conjuncted blocks: five main (selective hydrogenation, fracturing, hydrodesulfurization, stabilization, amine regeneration) blocks and four auxiliary blocks. Axens (France) is the licensor of this process, ZAO Neftekhimproject (Saint Petersburg) performed the designing. OAO Promfinstroy acted as the General Contractor and performed construction works.

"Axens’ Technologies for Irak Nassiriya New Refinery"
The State Company for Oil Projects (SCOP), part of the Iraqi Ministry of Oil, has awarded Axens the Basic Design and License contracts for the construction of the new refinery in Nassiriya, Iraq. Axens will supply the following process technologies for the refinery:

Axens Awarded Irak Maissan Refinery Contracts
South Refineries Company (SRC), a subsidiary of the Iraqi Ministry of Oil, awarded Axens the Basic Engineering Design and License contracts for the construction of the new refinery in Maissan, Southern Irak. Axens will supply the following process technologies for the refinery: