TWO NEW STANDARD (INDIANA) LUBE OIL PLANTS

Abstract

TWO NEW PLANTS have recently been placed on stream by the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) in the United States for the production of lubricating oil by modern methods. One, at the company's Whiting, Indiana, refinery, consists of a 5,800 bbl/day (average) dewaxing, 2,800 bbl/day (average) deoiling unit for treating waxy oil feed. The other is at Casper, Wyoming, for treating Salt Creek Green Wyoming crude oil. Here, the vacuum distillation unit has a throughput capacity of 11,500 bbl/day. Both plants use the MEK (Methyl‐ethyl‐ketone) dewaxing‐deoiling process licensed by Texaco Development Corpn. In both cases, the plants were built by the Foster Wheeler Corpn., who also supplied the process and mechanical design.

Citation

(1961), "TWO NEW STANDARD (INDIANA) LUBE OIL PLANTS", Industrial Lubrication and Tribology, Vol. 13 No. 1, pp. 18-20. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb052655