Petrochina Completes Phase I Expansion for Sour Crude Downstream Processing Project

MANILA, PHILIPPINES--December 19, 2013--Written by Faye Wang from Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Petrochina Guangxi Petrochemical Company (Guangxi Qinzhou, China) has completed the first phase of a sour crude oil downstream processing project at the company's 200,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) crude oil refinery at a cost of $1.27 billion. The project is designed to improve Petrochina Guangxi Petrochemical's ability to process high sulfur crude oil.