Sincor Heavy Crude Upgrader
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Summary Information
- Ownership: PDVSA / Total / Statoil
- Website:
- Location: Jose, Anzoategui, Venezuela
- Capacity: 10.0 million tons/annum & 200,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
+++ Brief Description
- A heavy crude upgrader
+++ Refining Units
- Atmospheric distillation unit: 284,000 barrels per day
- Vacuum distillation unit: 176,000 barrels per day
- Delayed Coker
- Hydrocracker: 70,000 barrels per day
- Distillate hydrotreater: 93,000 barrels per day
- Sulfur complex
- Three Sulfur Recovery Units (403 MTPD each):
- A Tail Gas Treatment Unit,
- Two Amine Regeneration Units,
- One phenolic Sour Water Stripper,
- One non-phenolic Sour Water Stripper
+++ Contractors
- **Foster Wheeler:** Delayed Coker
- **Kværner:** construction of the sulphur-removal plant
- **Contrina:** Construction of the processing plant and utilities
+++ Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
+++ Crude Supply
- 8.5 API Ultra Heavy Crude supplied from the [[[Zuata Oil Field]]]
+++ Products Produced
- 180,000 barrels of high-quality syncrude, [[[Zuata Sweet Syncrude]]]
- In addition, 6,000 tones of coke and 900 tones of sulphur are produced as by-products
+++ Ongoing Projects
- -
+++ Other Information
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+++ History
- 1997 - The Sincor project was initiated
- 1998 - Construction begins
- 2002 - Refinery Commissioned
- 2005 - Approval from Venezuelan Government for SINCOR II
- 2007 - Sincor is nationalised
- 2008 - Sincor renamed Petrocedeño
