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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – The two Saudi Aramco and Petronas companies have resumed work on a crude distillation unit at its refinery in Malaysia, two sources close to the case said Friday.
They said the unit had been supplied with crude oil this week.
The Panjirang Refinery Project, part of the $ 27 billion integrated Pangirang Complex, consists of a 300,000 bpd oil refinery and a 7.7 million petrochemical complex. tons per year in the state of Johor, in the south of the country.
The project, originally known as Rapid, or Integrated Refining and Petrochemical Development Project, was completed in April after a fire damaged the plant. desulfurization.
Sources said it was due to resume operations last month but was postponed until August.
They said that it was expected that the desulphurization plant repairs would take months. The refinery has therefore adapted the type of crude oil treated with low sulfur crude oil, such as Murban crude from Abu Dhabi.
Refinancing data showed that strong refinery refinery demand for Murban crude pushed Malaysia's oil imports up 4.6 million barrels in June and July.
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