Thanks, if I cut back on the naphtha import I get a lighter overall crudeslate. But according to our LP model it makes more economical sense to by heavier crudes and then import naphtha to fill the reformer. Does that seem logical?
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I am currently running LP on US east coast refineries using 2006 capacities and prices. And our model buys a lot of heavy naphtha/reformer naphtha. With a normalised refinery of total crude capacity of 100 kbbl/d it sometimes takes as much as 8.5 kbbl/d in addition as naphtha import...
I used to work for one of the mentioned companies. What is important to remember is that the meter will measure what is inside it. If it is scaled or waxed or if there is waterhold up in that section this will influence the readings and the readings will not be represenatative. This applies...
