Valero Selects Engineer to Perform Preliminary Design for Low-Sulfur Diesel Project in New Jersey

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE:VLO) (San Antonio, Texas) has selected Mustang Engineering (Houston, Texas) to perform preliminary design services for a low-sulfur diesel project at the Paulsboro, New Jersey, refinery. Valero plans to upgrade a 45,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) diesel hydrotreater unit that produces heating oil and diesel. The project will involve installing a new 900-pound-per-square-inch reactor, which is already on order. The company expects to obtain approval in early 2009 and will select a company to perform engineering, procurement and construction services for the project, which is expected to begin construction in fall 2009.

Valero is a Fortune 500 company with about 22,000 employees and assets of $38 billion. Valero has 17 refineries in North America with a total throughput capacity of 3.1 million BBL/d. The company's geographically diverse refining network stretches from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast and West Coast to the Caribbean.

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