Asia’s largest refiner Sinopec plans to raise the capacity of its Jinling refinery by a third to 360,000 barrels per day (bpd) by 2015, Oil and Gas News reported. The plant, situated near the Yangtze River in Jiangsu province, will keep its crude output at full capacity of 270,000 bpd this year, the same as in 2010, said Zhang Dafu, who was the chairman of Jinling until the end of last year. He is now an inspector of Sinopec Group.

“We will remove some small old facilities and add some new facilities in order to raise the quality of our oil products and improve the environment,” Mr Zhang was reported as saying. Sinopec plans to add a 160,000 bpd crude oil unit and a sulphur recycling unit with a capacity of 100,000 tonnes-a-year at the Jinling refinery before the end of 2011 and a 3.5m tonnes-a-year fluid catalytic cracker in 2012, industry sources have said.