The Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company (Takreer) in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) has awarded the Shaw Group Inc. a process license technology package that will include four Axens technologies along with the world’s largest residue fluid catalytic cracker (RFCC) which is part of the Axens, Shaw, Total and IFP FCC Technology Alliance.
The Axens technologies to be included in the expansion at the Ruwais Industrial Complex include the following units:
• Unsaturated LPG treatment unit (Sulfrex™) – 59,800 barrels per stream day (bpsd)
• C4-cut purification system (Alkyfining™) – 37,800 bpsd
• Butane Isomerization unit – 26,000 bpsd
• RFCC whole cracked naphtha hydrotreater (Prime-G+™) – 40,930 bpsd
The centerpiece of the grassroots expansion will be the 127,100 bpsd R2R™ RFCC unit. The R2R includes the most advanced components in FCC technology, including: impact feed injectors, RS2^SM riser termination device, KFBE™ structured stripper packing, SCM^SM selective cracking mixer and PetroRiser^SM external riser for propylene production. To date, over 40 FCC licenses have been awarded to the Technology Alliance.
The Ruwais Prime-G+ award is the 156th license of this technology for the production of ultra-low sulfur gasoline.
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Sulfrex, Alkyfining, Prime-G+, R2R, RS2, SCM and PetroRiser are proprietary commercial names of Axens. R2R, RS2, SCM, PetroRiser and other FCC components are technologies commercialized by Axens and Shaw, and part of the global FCC Alliance between Axens, Shaw, Total and IFP. KFBE is a proprietary commercial name of Koch Glitch.

Takreer
The Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company (Takreer), www.takreer.com, was established in 1999 as a public joint-stock company to take over the responsibility of the Ruwais and Abu Dhabi refining operations previously undertaken by the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC). The company's areas of operation include the refining of crude oil and condensate, supply of petroleum products and production of granulated sulphur.