Saudi Arabian Oil Company

Sabic Global Technologies B.v.

Jurgen Kleibergen

Vinod Ramaseshan

Mohamed Sabri Abdelghani

Nicolas Goyheneix

Hatem Belfadhel

Timothy Abbott

Methods and systems for producing light olefins are disclosed. A feedstock comprising crude oil is distilled to produce a plurality of streams including a naphtha stream and a vacuum residue stream. The naphtha is fed to a steam cracking unit to produce light olefins, Chydrocarbons, pyrolysis gasoline and pyrolysis oil. The vacuum residue stream is hydrocracked to produce additional naphtha and heavy unconverted oil. The heavy unconverted oil and the pyrolysis oil from steam cracking unit can be deasphalted to produce deasphalted oil and pitch product. The deasphalted oil can be further hydrocracked to produce naphtha. The pitch product can be gasified to produce synthesis gas, which is further used to produce methanol. The methanol can be used to react with isobutylene of the Chydrocarbon stream from steam cracker to produce methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE).

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