Uruguay's ANCAP commissions new gasoline production complex

By OGJ editors

HOUSTON, Feb 19 -- Uruguay's state oil company Administracion Nacional de Combustibles Alcohol y Portland (ANCAP) put on stream in fourth quarter 2003 a gasoline production complex at its La Teja refinery in Montevideo, increasing nominal processing capacity to 50,000 b/d.

The facilities, which employ technologies supplied by Axens IFP Group Technologies of France, included a naphtha hydrotreater, a continuous catalyst regeneration reforming Octanizer, and a paraffin isomerization unit. Axens previously completed a 33% debottleneck of the refinery's R2R fluid catalytic cracker.

The completed complex was designed to meet regional market demand for unleaded gasoline.