Distillation unit atmospheric heaters serve a vital role in crude oil processing. Any issues directly related to reduced capacity of a heater, such as elevated tube-skin temperatures (TSTs) and coking ...

LISBON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - The atmospheric distillation unit at Portugal's 225,000-barrel-per-day Sines oil refinery owned by Galp Energia has been in an unplanned outage since the beginning of last ...

Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has initiated the start-up of furnaces in the atmospheric distillation unit at its Abreu e Lima refinery (Rnest) at the port of Suape, near Recife, the capital of ...

Historically speaking, optimizing the refinery has been mostly focused on final products (e.g., gasoline and diesel), slowly shifting focus to conversion and upgrading process units across the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Petroleo Brasileiro SA began operating the furnaces in the atmospheric distillation unit at its Abreu e Lima or "RNEST" refinery near Recife, the state-run oil ...