C1 Energy (Shanghai) – Sep 2, 2010 －－－Sinopec Qingdao Refining & Chemical is expected to expand its preliminary crude processing capacity to 11-mil mt per year (220 kbd) by July 2011, a refinery source told C1.
The refinery would shut all units for a 45-day overhaul from June 2011, the source said.
The source also revealed the refinery arranged to consume 820,000mt of crude this September, flat with the target for August.
Qingdao Refining & Chemical, located in Qingdao City of Shandong Province, owns an annual crude throughput capacity of 10-mil mt at present. It mainly refines mixture of Saudi heavy and light crude at 1:1 ratio. It is capable of producing Euro III gasoline and gasoil, most of which are supplied to Shandong and North China.
