{"id":2486,"date":"2026-01-20T17:46:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/wptest\/2026\/01\/20\/prefchem-achieves-start-up-of-refinery\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:19:38","slug":"prefchem-achieves-start-up-of-refinery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/2026\/01\/20\/prefchem-achieves-start-up-of-refinery\/","title":{"rendered":"PRefChem Achieves Start-Up of Refinery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pengerang Refining and Petrochemical (PRefChem) achieved a significant milestone when it commenced the start-up of its refinery with the firing up of the Complex\u2019s Crude Distillation Unit (CDU).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a refining capacity of 300,000 barrels of crude per day, the PRefChem refinery will produce a range of refined petroleum products, including gasoline and diesel upon completion, which will also meet Euro 5 fuel specifications. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The refinery will provide feedstock for the integrated petrochemicals complex which has the capacity to produce 3.3 million tonnes per annum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFrom the start, the project has been an unprecedented undertaking for the industry in its scale, complexity and technology. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhat\u2019s more, we set ourselves to achieve this from ground up within 60 months! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cToday, the refinery has achieved mechanical completion and is now in full commission, marking the beginning of start-ups in subsequent facilities within this integrated development,\u201d said PRefChem chief executive officer, Dr. Colin Wong Hee Huing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe team overcame extreme challenges to arrive at this incredible milestone delivered on time as promised. We are now one step closer towards commercial operations,\u201d Dr. Colin added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the commencement of the start-up, the refinery is expected to be ready for commercial operations by Q4 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pengerang Refining and Petrochemical (PRefChem) achieved a significant milestone when it commenced the start-up of its refinery with the firing up of the Complex\u2019s Crude Distillation Unit (CDU). With a refining capacity of 300,000 barrels of crude per day, the PRefChem refinery will produce a range of refined petroleum products, including gasoline and diesel upon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6013,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions\/6013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}