Against this backdrop, high-margin opportunities are emerging in the petrochemical feedstock market. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated market expansion of chemical building blocks such as propylene. This suggests opportunities for upgrading resid to petrochemicals and marketable fuel components such as high octane alkylate.

Simultaneously maximising LPG at constant gasoline production is a key objective that can be met with technology that leverages state-of-the-art process and hardware in parallel with catalyst technology, enabling increased resid processing with high propylene yields. More flexibility therefore becomes available for processing a wide range of feedstock from heavy resid to VGO.