Patent ID: 9464240
Filing Date: 2016-10-11
CPC Classification: C10G

Claim Text:
1. A method of producing aromatic products, the method comprising: separating a crude oil and condensate feed into at least a light naphtha stream, a heavy naphtha stream, and a bottoms stream; feeding a cracker feed stream, comprising the light naphtha stream and the bottoms stream, to an olefins cracker to produce cracker products; extracting the aromatics products from at least a portion of the cracker products to produce a first aromatic product stream and an aromatics extraction raffinate stream; reforming at least a portion of the aromatics extraction raffinate stream and the heavy naphtha stream to produce a reformate stream; and extracting additional aromatic products from the reformate stream to produce a second aromatic product stream and a second aromatic extraction raffinate stream; wherein the cracker feed stream further comprises the second aromatic extraction raffinate stream.