01592nmc a2200229 4500 20260520005612.0 260224s2001 xxu ing Inglés Residual Processing in FCC SPE 70801 Dallas, Texas Society of Petroleum Engineers 2001 12/09/06 ; 09/10/01 When the company decided to participate in the international market, it became necessary to increase the throughout in the Refinery. At that moment, fuel oil had a very low price, so there was no incentive to increase the feed to the Topping units once the capacity of the vacuum and coker units was surpassed. After a strategic analysis an opportunity was founded in the operations of the two cat crackers. The idea of feeding these units with atmospheric bottoms and converting them into valuable products, showed a very good economic return. This was based in the fact that both crackers were operating in a low utilization mode. CONGTP Guzmán, J.D. 6666 Ruiz, M.D. 6667 Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference (7th : 2001 mar. 25-28 : Buenos Aires, Argentina) 5738 Ruiz, M.D. 6667 Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference (7th : 2001 mar. 25-28 : Buenos Aires, Argentina) 5738 Guzmán, J.D. 6666 131232 131232 https://biblioteca.iapg.org.ar/ArchivosAdjuntos/Bibliotecas/https://biblioteca.iapg.org.ar/ArchivosAdjuntos/LACPEC2001/Spe70801.pdf 0 0 0 0 202154 BVIAPG BVIAPG 2026-03-03 200003318 0 200003318 2026-03-03 01:41:21 2026-03-03 ARCHIVO