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Lubricant Base Oil and Wax Processing Avilino Sequeira
Publisher: CRC Press

A Canadian company has even developed a process to form micro wax and polymers into a structural material that does not require maintenance, in essence it is a wax brick. €�The arrival of the first shipment of GTL base oil to the Americas is an extremely exciting event for Shell Lubricants and our customers,” said Lisa Davis, president, Shell Commercial Fuels and Lubricants, Americas. Mixed-Base Crude Oils: The "gray area" between the two types above. During the construction process there were between 2,000 and 4,000 construction workers on the site at any one time, which generated around $40m-50m in sales taxes for the Parish of St John the Baptist where the refinery is based. [0018] (3) Wax obtained by a lubricating oil dewaxing step (slack wax or the like) and/or synthetic wax obtained by a gas-to-liquid (GTL) process (Fischer-Tropsch wax, GTL wax or the like). In a letter to buyers obtained by ICIS news, CITGO announced it will eliminate production at the Lake Charles lubricants and wax refinery in Louisiana during the third quarter. €�This new base oil is another clear example of Shell Lubricants' commitment to using In the last step of the process, the waxes are cracked and distilled into finished GTL products. HOUSTON (ICIS news)--The base oils and wax market could tighten even further as producer CITGO was said on Monday to be preparing to close its Lake Charles refinery, the second such industry closing in as many months, industry sources said. No dates were given in the letter. The Garyville facility produces: petrol, diesel, kerosene, jet fuel, asphalt, lube base oil, slack wax, propane, toluene, xylene, aromatic extract, petroleum pitch, sulphur, propane, propylene, isobutane, asphalt, coke and heavy oil. Some are predominantly naphthenes so yield a lubricating oil that is more sensitive to temperature changes than the paraffin-base crudes. The oil portion of the cylinder stock is further processed to remove the resins.