{"id":2188,"date":"2022-04-17T12:12:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T12:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lanaz.com\/?p=2188"},"modified":"2026-03-31T12:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:04:58","slug":"iraqi-refinery-adds-units-to-produce-cleaner-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lanaz.com\/iraqi-refinery-adds-units-to-produce-cleaner-fuels\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi refinery adds units to produce cleaner fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column]<div id=\"cz_8825\" class=\"cz_8825 cz_title clr cz_mobile_text_center cz_title_pos_block\"><div class=\"cz_title_content\"><div class=\"cz_wpe_content\"><h4>Iraqi refinery adds units to produce cleaner fuels<\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"cz_10680\" data-position=\"top-right\" class=\"cz_10680 cz_image clr cz_image_no_fx center_on_mobile\"><div class=\"\" ><div class=\"cz_image_in\"><div class=\"cz_main_image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" width=\"1280\" height=\"796\" src=\"https:\/\/lanaz.com\/file\/2022\/04\/Lanaz-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full\" alt=\"Lanaz\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lanaz.com\/file\/2022\/04\/Lanaz-1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/lanaz.com\/file\/2022\/04\/Lanaz-1-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lanaz.com\/file\/2022\/04\/Lanaz-1-1024x637.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lanaz.com\/file\/2022\/04\/Lanaz-1-768x478.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lanaz.com\/file\/2022\/04\/Lanaz-1-600x373.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>[vc_column_text]Lanaz Co. has let a contract to Honeywell UOP LLC to deliver technology licensing and equipment for a project to increase production of cleaner-burning transportation fuels at the operator\u2019s 100,000-b\/d refinery at Erbil in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Lanaz Co. has let a contract to Honeywell UOP LLC to deliver technology licensing and equipment for a project to increase production of cleaner-burning transportation fuels at the operator\u2019s 100,000-b\/d refinery at Erbil in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the contract, Honeywell UOP supplied basic engineering design, licensing, and full-modular units equipped with its proprietary naphtha hydrotreating and fixed-bed platforming process technology for the Lanaz clean-fuels upgrading project, the service provider said in a Jan. 10 release.<\/p>\n<p>Honeywell UOP disclosed no further details regarding its scope of work under the contract, but Ilsung Hisco Ltd. of South Korea, which acted as UOP Honeywell\u2019s equipment fabricator, said in an early January 2020 presentation that\u2014in addition to a series of storage vessels, drums, tanks, and related components\u2014it manufactured the following major units for the Lanaz project:<\/p>\n<p>One naphtha hydrotreating reactor.<br \/>\nThree fluidized bed process reactors.<br \/>\nOne naphtha splitter.<br \/>\nOne natural gas chloride treater.<br \/>\nOne debutanizer.<br \/>\nOne LPG chloride treater.<br \/>\nLanaz has yet to officially confirm either additional details or a status of the upgrading project, but the refinery was scheduled to commission a new high-octane plant at the site by yearend 2021, according to the latest information available on the operator\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>Consisting of eight production units and also equipped to produce 3,600 tonnes\/day of bitumen, the Lanaz refinery was commissioned in 2008.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Lanaz Co. has let a contract to Honeywell UOP LLC to deliver technology licensing and equipment for a project to increase production of cleaner-burning transportation fuels at the &#8230; 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