Patent ID: 11939541
Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
Field: Basic materials chemistry (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC C | IPC C

Claim 8:
9. The process of claim 1, further comprising
initially passing the hydrocarbon oil stream through a feed separator to separate the hydrocarbon oil stream into at least a heavy hydrocarbon fraction, a feed middle distillate stream, and a feed naphtha stream;
solvent deasphalting the heavy hydrocarbon fraction to form at least the deasphalted oil stream and the heavy residual hydrocarbons; and
steam enhanced catalytically cracking at least the feed middle distillate stream in the first steam enhanced catalytic cracker to form the light steam enhanced catalytically cracked product; and
processing the feed naphtha stream in the aromatics complex to produce additional benzene and xylenes.