Saudi Arabian Oil Company

Sabic Global Technologies B.v.

Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited

Zhonglin Zhang

Sohel K Shaikh

Qi Xu

Raed H Abudawoud

Miao Sun

Aaron Chi Akah

Omer Refa Koseoglu

Musaed Salem Al-Ghrami

Noor Al-Mana

Kareemuddin Mahaboob Shaik

Mohammed Bismillah Ansari

Guillermo Canelon Leal

Munir D Khokhar

Hiren Shethna

Aqil Jamal

Ahmad A Jazzar

Furqan Aljumah

Wei Xu

Ibrahim A Abba

Veera Venkata R Tammana

Bruce Richard Beadle

Rakan Sulaiman Bilaus

Naif Mohammed Al-Naddah Al-Otaibi

Hisham Tawfiq Bassam

Sameer Ali Al-Ghamdi

Hussain M Yami

Lianhui Ding

Motaz Khawaji

Mark P Kaminsky

Mansour Ali Al-Herz

Olanrewaju Malcolm Oshinowo

Ke Zhang

Ali Al Jawad

Noor A Sulais

Faisal H Alshafei

Faisal M Melibari

Kenji Sogo

Essa Alnaimi

Saad Al-Bogami

Fahad A Almalki

Eman Z Albaher

Yohei Kashiwame

Rodrigo Sandoval Rivera

Luis A Rojas Cordova

Hattan T Janbi

Salem R AlSubayee

Raed Abudawound

Xu Wei

Sohel K Saikh

Bruce R Beadle

Hisham T Bassam

In accordance with one or more embodiments herein, an integrated process for upgrading a hydrocarbon oil feed stream utilizing a delayed coker, steam enhanced catalytic cracker, and an aromatics complex includes solvent deasphalting the hydrocarbon oil stream; delayed coking the heavy residual hydrocarbons; hydrotreating the delayed coker product stream and the deasphalted oil stream to form a light Chydrocarbon stream and a heavy Chydrocarbon stream; steam enhanced catalytically cracking the light Chydrocarbon stream; steam enhanced catalytically cracking the heavy Chydrocarbon stream; passing at least a portion of the light steam enhanced catalytically cracked stream, the heavy steam enhanced catalytically cracked stream, or both to a product separator to produce a olefin product stream, a naphtha product stream, and a BTX product stream; and processing the naphtha product stream in the aromatics complex to produce benzene and xylenes.

Methods for processing a hydrocarbon oil feed stream utilizing a delayed coker, steam enhanced catalytic cracker, and an aromatics complex

An integrated process for upgrading a hydrocarbon oil feed stream utilizing a delayed coker and steam enhanced catalytic cracker includes solvent deasphalting the hydrocarbon oil stream to form at least a deasphalted oil stream and heavy residual hydrocarbons, the heavy residual hydrocarbons including at least asphaltenes; delayed coking the heavy residual hydrocarbons to form petroleum coke and a delayed coker product stream; hydrotreating the delayed coker product stream and the deasphalted oil stream to form a light Chydrocarbon stream, and a heavy Chydrocarbon stream; steam enhanced catalytically cracking the light Chydrocarbon stream to form a light steam enhanced catalytically cracked product stream including olefins, benzene, toluene, xylene, naphtha, or combinations thereof; and steam enhanced catalytically cracking the heavy Chydrocarbon stream to form a heavy steam enhanced catalytically cracked product including olefins, benzene, toluene, xylene, naphtha, or combinations thereof.

Methods for processing a hydrocarbon oil feed stream utilizing a delayed coker and steam enhanced catalytic cracker

An integrated process for upgrading a hydrocarbon oil feed stream includes solvent deasphalting the hydrocarbon oil stream to form at least a deasphalted oil stream and heavy residual hydrocarbons, delayed coking the heavy residual hydrocarbons to form petroleum coke and a delayed coker product stream; hydrotreating the delayed coker product stream and the deasphalted oil stream to form a C-Chydrocarbon stream, a light Chydrocarbon stream, and a heavy Chydrocarbon stream; dehydrogenating the C-Chydrocarbon stream to form propylene and butylene; steam enhanced catalytically cracking the light Chydrocarbon stream to form a light steam enhanced catalytically cracked product stream including olefins, benzene, toluene, xylene, naphtha, or combinations thereof; and steam enhanced catalytically cracking the heavy Chydrocarbon stream to form a heavy steam enhanced catalytically cracked product including olefins, benzene, toluene, xylene, naphtha, or combinations thereof.

A process for selectively producing oligomers may comprise bringing at least one antifouling agent into contact with a first amount of at least one aluminum alkyl compound to form at least one antifouling compound comprising the structure or its dimeric form; and feeding the at least one antifouling compound, an additional amount of the at least one aluminum alkyl compound, at least one titanate compound, and ethylene into a jet loop reactor and oligomerizing ethylene to produce one or more of 1-butene, 1-hexene, or 1-octene. One or more of the chemical groups R1, R2, and R3 may be the antifouling agent comprising the structure —O((CH)O)R4. n may be an integer of from 1 to 20. m may be an integer of from 1 to 100. R4 may be a hydrocarbyl group. In embodiments, the chemical groups R1, R2, or R3 that do not comprise the antifouling agent, if any, may be hydrocarbyl groups. The at least one titanate compound may be fed as a stream separate from the streams of the at least one antifouling compound and the additional amount of the at least one aluminum alkyl compound. The of the sum of the first amount and the additional amount of the at least one aluminum alkyl compound to the at least one titanate compound may be equal to or higher than 1.5 and equal to or lower than 3.0.

Process for selective ethylene oligomerization with antifouling components

A process for the conversion of a petroleum feed to light olefins may comprise pretreating the petroleum feed to form one or more pretreated petroleum feeds and fractionating the one or more pretreated petroleum feeds to form a methane stream, an ethane stream, a C-Cstream, a light liquid fraction, and a heavy liquid fraction. The process may further comprise methane cracking the methane stream to form hydrogen, steam cracking the ethane stream to form a steam cracking product; dehydrogenating the C-Cstream to form a dehydrogenated stream; and steam enhanced catalytic cracking (SECC) the light liquid fraction and the heavy liquid fraction to form an SECC product.

Process for the conversion of petroleum to light olefins utilizing a pretreatment complex and steam enhanced catalytic cracker

An integrated process for upgrading a hydrocarbon oil feed stream utilizing a delayed coker, steam enhanced catalytic cracker, and an aromatics complex includes solvent deasphalting the hydrocarbon oil stream; delayed coking the heavy residual hydrocarbons; hydrotreating the delayed coker product stream and the deasphalted oil stream to form a C-Chydrocarbon stream, a light Chydrocarbon stream, and a heavy Chydrocarbon stream; dehydrogenating the C-Chydrocarbon stream to form propylene and butylene; steam enhanced catalytically cracking the light Chydrocarbon stream; steam enhanced catalytically cracking the heavy Chydrocarbon stream; passing at least a portion of the light steam enhanced catalytically cracked stream, the heavy steam enhanced catalytically cracked stream, or both to a product separator to produce a olefin product stream, a naphtha product stream, and a BTX product stream; and processing the naphtha product stream in the aromatics complex to produce benzene and xylenes.

An integrated process for upgrading a hydrocarbon oil feed stream includes solvent deasphalting the hydrocarbon oil stream; processing the heavy residual hydrocarbons in a gasification unit to form syngas and gasification residue; hydrotreating the deasphalted oil stream to form a C-Chydrocarbon stream, a light Chydrocarbon stream, and a heavy Chydrocarbon stream; dehydrogenating the C-Chydrocarbon stream to form propylene and butylene; steam enhanced catalytically cracking the light Chydrocarbon stream; steam enhanced catalytically cracking the heavy Chydrocarbon stream; passing at least a portion of the light steam enhanced catalytically cracked stream, the heavy steam enhanced catalytically cracked stream, or both to a product separator to produce a olefin product stream, a naphtha product stream, and a BTX product stream; and processing the naphtha product stream in the aromatics complex to produce benzene and xylenes.

Methods for processing a hydrocarbon oil feed stream utilizing a gasification unit, dehydrogenation unit, steam enhanced catalytic cracker, and an aromatics complex

In accordance with one or more embodiments herein, an integrated process for upgrading a hydrocarbon oil feed stream utilizing a gasification unit, steam enhanced catalytic cracker, and an aromatics complex includes solvent deasphalting the hydrocarbon oil stream; processing the heavy residual hydrocarbons in a gasification unit to form syngas and gasification residue; hydrotreating the deasphalted oil stream to form a light Chydrocarbon stream and a heavy Chydrocarbon stream; steam enhanced catalytically cracking the light Chydrocarbon stream; steam enhanced catalytically cracking the heavy Chydrocarbon stream; passing at least a portion of the light steam enhanced catalytically cracked stream, the heavy steam enhanced catalytically cracked stream, or both to a product separator to produce a olefin product stream, a naphtha product stream, and a BTX product stream; and processing the naphtha product stream in the aromatics complex to produce benzene and xylenes.

Methods for processing a hydrocarbon oil feed stream utilizing a gasification unit, steam enhanced catalytic cracker, and an aromatics complex

In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for producing aromatic compounds from pyrolysis gasoline comprising C-Cnon-aromatic hydrocarbons includes aromatizing the pyrolysis gasoline in an aromatization unit, thereby converting the C-Cnon-aromatic hydrocarbons to a first stream comprising benzene-toluene-xylenes (BTX); hydrotreating the first stream comprising BTX in a selective hydrotreatment unit, thereby producing a de-olefinated stream comprising BTX hydrodealkylating and transalkylating the de-olefinated stream comprising BTX in a hydrodealkylation-transalkylation unit, thereby producing a second stream comprising BTX, the second stream comprising BTX having a greater amount of benzene and xylenes than the first stream comprising BTX; and processing the second stream comprising BTX in an aromatics recovery complex, thereby producing the aromatic compounds from the pyrolysis gasoline, the aromatic compounds comprising benzene, toluene, and xylenes.

Integrated process for pygas upgrading to BTX

Processes for producing olefins include integration of steam cracking with a dual catalyst metathesis process. The processes include steam cracking a hydrocarbon feed to form a cracking reaction effluent containing butenes, separating the cracking reaction effluent to produce a cracking C4 effluent including normal butenes, isobutene, and 1,3-butadiene, subjecting the cracking C4 effluent to selective hydrogenation to convert 1,3-butadiene in the cracking C4 effluent to normal butenes, removing isobutene from a hydrogenation effluent to produce a metathesis feed containing normal butenes, and contacting the metathesis feed with a metathesis catalyst and a cracking catalyst directly downstream of the metathesis catalyst to produce a metathesis reaction effluent. Contacting with the metathesis catalyst causes metathesis of normal butenes to produce ethylene, propene, and C5+ olefins, and contacting with the cracking catalyst causes C5+ olefins produced through metathesis to undergo cracking reactions to produce additional propene, ethylene, or both.

Systems and processes integrating steam cracking with dual catalyst metathesis for producing olefins

In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for producing aromatic compounds from pyrolysis gasoline includes splitting the pyrolysis gasoline into a stream comprising non-aromatic hydrocarbons and a stream comprising paraffinic hydrocarbons and aromatic hydrocarbons; aromatizing the stream comprising paraffinic hydrocarbons and aromatic hydrocarbons, thereby converting the stream comprising paraffinic hydrocarbons and aromatic hydrocarbons to a first stream comprising benzene-toluene-xylenes (BTX); hydrotreating the first stream comprising BTX in a selective hydrotreatment unit, thereby producing a de-olefinated stream comprising BTX; hydrodealkylating and transalkylating the de-olefinated stream comprising BTX in a hydrodealkylation-transalkylation unit, thereby producing a second stream comprising BTX, the second stream comprising BTX having a greater amount of benzene and xylenes than the first stream comprising BTX; and processing the second stream comprising BTX in an aromatics recovery complex, thereby producing the aromatic compounds comprising benzene, toluene, and xylenes.

Integrated process for upgrading C6+ and C8+ non-aromatics in pygas to BTX

According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method of processing a hydrocarbon feed includes fractionating the hydrocarbon feed into a light stream and a heavy stream; hydrotreating the heavy stream to form a hydrotreated heavy stream; feeding the light stream and the hydrotreated heavy stream to a single Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) reaction zone, thereby producing a product stream which includes light olefins. The light stream may be exposed to more severe FCC cracking conditions than the heavy stream, within the same FCC reaction zone. The single FCC reaction zone may be operated in a down-flow configuration and the FCC may be operated under high severity conditions. The light stream may include hydrocarbons boiling at less than 371° C. and the heavy stream may include hydrocarbons boiling at greater than 371° C.

Multi-zone catalytic cracking of crude oils

An integrated hydrotreating and hydrocracking process includes contacting a hydrocarbon oil stream with a hydrogen stream and a hydrotreating catalyst in a moving-bed hydrotreating reactor, thereby producing a hydrocarbon product stream and a spent hydrotreating catalyst; contacting the hydrocarbon product stream with a second hydrogen stream and a hydrocracking catalyst in a hydrocracking reactor, thereby producing a hydrocracked hydrocarbon product stream; processing the spent hydrotreating catalyst to produce regenerated hydrotreating catalyst; and recycling the regenerated hydrotreating catalyst to the moving-bed hydrotreating reactor.

Integrated hydrotreating and hydrocracking with continuous hydrotreating catalyst regeneration

An integrated process for upgrading a hydrocarbon oil feed stream utilizing a gasification unit and steam enhanced catalytic cracker includes solvent deasphalting the hydrocarbon oil stream to form at least a deasphalted oil stream and heavy residual hydrocarbons, the heavy residual hydrocarbons including at least asphaltenes; processing the heavy residual hydrocarbons in a gasification unit to form syngas and gasification residue; hydrotreating the deasphalted oil stream to form a light Chydrocarbon stream, and a heavy Chydrocarbon stream; steam enhanced catalytically cracking the light Chydrocarbon stream to form a light steam enhanced catalytically cracked product stream including olefins, benzene, toluene, xylene, naphtha, or combinations thereof; and steam enhanced catalytically cracking the heavy Chydrocarbon stream to form a heavy steam enhanced catalytically cracked product including olefins, benzene, toluene, xylene, naphtha, or combinations thereof.

Methods for processing a hydrocarbon oil feed stream utilizing a gasification unit and steam enhanced catalytic cracker

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