Texaco Oil

When completed in 1996, the Weihe plant will gasify 1500 t/day of coal to produce 300,000 t/yr of ammonia, which will be used to manufacture 520,000 t/yr of urea fertilizer. This project is the eighth Texaco oil or coal gasification plant Hcensed by Chinese industry. 

Uhde s Design of the Texaco Oil Gasification, Krupp - Uhde comp, brochure TOPG 2A/AB, 1995. 

The supervision of process control teams is a key factor in ensuring plant efficiency and safety. Previous research in various domains has identified the key role that effective supervision plays in the efficiency of subordinates work performance. Further, various studies have identified poor or inadequate supervision as a key contributory factor in accidents and incidents within complex sociotechnical systems (e.g., BOMEL Consortium, 2003 Brazier, Gait, and Waite, 2004). For example. Brazier et al. (2004) highlighted the Texaco oil refinery, Hickson Welch, Nobel, and Piper Alpha explosions as examples of accidents in which inadequate supervision was evident. 

The Texaco process was first utilized for the production of ammonia synthesis gas from natural gas and oxygen. It was later (1957) appHed to the partial oxidation of heavy fuel oils. This appHcation has had the widest use because it has made possible the production of ammonia and methanol synthesis gases, as well as pure hydrogen, at locations where the lighter hydrocarbons have been unavailable or expensive such as in Maine, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Norway, and Japan. 

The high cost of coal handling and preparation and treatment of effluents, compounded by continuing low prices for cmde oil and natural gas, has precluded significant exploitation of coal as a feedstock for methanol. A small amount of methanol is made from coal in South Africa for local strategic reasons. Tennessee Eastman operates a 195,000-t/yr methanol plant in Tennessee based on the Texaco coal gasification process to make the methyl acetate intermediate for acetic anhydride production (15). 

Noncatalytic partial oxidation of residual fuel oil accounts for the remainder of world methanol production. Shell and Texaco ate the predominant hcensors for partial oxidation technology (16) the two differ principally in the mechanical details of mixing the feedstock and oxidant, in waste heat recovery, and in soHds management. 

Heavy Hydrocarbon-Based Partial Oxidation Processes. Two major partial oxidation processes are commercially available, the SheU process (38) and the Texaco process (39). Operating conditions in the gas generator vary from 1200°C to 1370°C and from 3100 kPa to 8270 kPa (450—1200 psig). Generally, heavy oils are the hydrocarbon feeds however, the process can also accommodate feeds from natural gas to residual oils. 

Manor Way, A1014 provides road access to the mainland a rail line for freight nms fmiii the main line through the Shell UK Oil refinery to Thames Haven, and to the Mobil Oil disiribution terminal at Coi-yton. A deep water channel provides access to the ten jetties of the two refineries. The control room and pumping station for the U.K. oil pipeline is located at Coryton. Oil products are transported by pipeline from Texaco Ltd on Canvey Island and from the two oil refineries ou the mainland Helicopters from the site landing pad. survey the pprelines. 

Texaco Limited, Canvey Island tank farm on the west side of the methane terminal is used to import petroleum products by sea via the two jetties, store and distribute them by tanker-trucks and sea, but mostly by the U.K. oil pipeline. The storage capacity is 80,000 tonnes of petroleum products employing about 130 people. 

London and Coastal Oil Wharves Limited bulk stores, in tanks, a variety of petroleum products and other substances that are flammable or toxic. Some tankage is leased to Texaco Limited which is connected into the UK oil pipeline for transfer from the site. Products also are rcccis cd by road and sea. The storage capacity is more than 3(X),(XK) tonnes with about fifty people employed. 

Oil found at Spindletop, Texas, which leads to the forniation of Gulf, Texaco, and Sun oil companies. 

Catalyst Research Associates (CRA) was formed. The original CRA members were Standard of New Jersey (Exxon), Standard of Indiana (Amoco), Anglo Iranian Oil Company (BP Oil), The Texas Company (Texaco), Royal Dutch Shell, Universal Oil Products (UOP), The M.W. Kellogg Company, and I.G. Farben (dropped in 1940). 

In the Texaco process, there are two steps, an initial liquefaction step followed by treatment in an entrained bed gasifier. The liquefaction step involves heating the plastic scrap in such a way that partial depolymerisation occurs, generating a heavy oil and some gas fractions. Some of the gas is recycled as fuel for the process. 

Texaco gasification is based on a combination of two process steps, a liquefaction step and an entrained bed gasifier. In the liquefaction step the plastic waste is cracked under relatively mild thermal conditions. This depolymerisation results in a synthetic heavy oil and a gas fraction, which in part is condensable. The noncondensable fraction is used as a fuel in the process. The process is very comparable to the cracking of vacuum residues that originate from oil recycling processes. 

The Texaco, Polymer Cracking, VEBA and BASF processes all produce mainly liquid organics or gases that replace primary oil- or gas-based resources. However, it has to be acknowledged that both BASF and VEBA have been closed down or will be closed down shortly, and that the other two processes have not yet been realised on a large scale. 

N. J. Jenvey, A. F Maclean, A. F. Miles, and H. T. R. Montgomerie. The application of oil soluble scale inhibitors into the Texaco Galley reservoir A comparison with traditional squeeze techniques to avoid problems associated with wettability modification in low water-cut wells. 2nd Annu SPE Oilfield Scale Int Symp (Aberdeen, Scotland, 1/26-1/27), 2000. 

U.S. manufacturers of alphaolefins include Ethyl Corp., Shell Chemical Co., Shell Oil Co., and Texaco Chemical Co. (USITC 1993). More than 1 billion pounds of alphaolefins were produced in 1991 (USITC 1993), but no information concerning the volume of alphaolefins used in the production of polyalphaolefin hydraulic fluids was found in the available literature. 

Texaco Exploration and Production Technology Division, which was working with EBC on crude oil biodesulfurization ... 

The H-Oil and T-STAR processes are jointly licensed by Texaco and HRI, Inc. 2Acronym for Texaco Strategic Total Activity Retention. 

Syntroleum A GTL process developed by Syntroleum Corporation, specially suitable for small plants in remote locations. Licensed to Texaco and Marathon Oil. One such plant is scheduled to be built by Brown and Root for Texaco in 1999. 

Negishi 361 MW GE (Texaco) Heavy oil Commercial operation started in 2003... 

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