Combined Marketing Efforts
Shell Global Solutions
Shell Global Solutions US Inc. and Merichem Company (Merichem) have formed an alliance to allow Shell Global Solutions to market and license Merichem’s technologies for treating hydrocarbon streams in combination with its own technologies to customers worldwide. The Merichem technologies are designed to remove mercaptans, carbonyl sulphide and other contaminants from hydrocarbon streams.
Refineries will now be able to benefit from a one stop shop to utilize these liquid hydrocarbon treating technologies. This alliance enhances the bundled offering opportunities for Merichem and Shell Global Solutions to offer:
- THIOLEX™
- REGEN®
- REGEN® ULS
- MERICAT™
- MERICAT II™
- NAPFINING™
- EXOMER™
- AQUAFINING™
- MERICON™
- CHLOREX™
ExxonMobil Research & Engineering
ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Company (EMRE) and Merichem Company (Merichem) jointly developed a technology to reduce sulfur content in hydrotreated FCC gasoline. This technology and the associated technical services are available for license under the service mark EXOMER™. This improved recombinant mercaptan extraction process provides an economical and efficient solution to refiners looking to meet future low sulfur motor gasoline requirements at very favorable capital and operating costs.
Based on an enhanced version of Merichem’s regenerative caustic mercaptan extraction process which utilizes Merichem’s FIBER FILM® Contactor technology, Merichem and EMRE combined their technology and engineering expertise to provide an innovative system that minimizes octane loss and reduces consumption of costly hydrogen and catalyst. EXOMER™ Technology also lowers refiners’ capital investment by retrofitting existing caustic treating equipment, if available, and eliminates the need for additional hydrotreating equipment to remove recombinant mercaptans.
