Patent ID: 7938955

Claim:
A method for producing a super-low sulfur gas oil blending component or a super-low sulfur gas oil composition comprising: desulfurizing a low-sulfur gas oil fraction with a sulfur content of 5 to 30 mass ppm by causing the low-sulfur gas oil fraction to come in contact with a porous desulfurization agent having a sulfur-sorbing function in the presence of hydrogen at a hydrogen/oil feed ratio of 10 to 500 NL/L to reduce the sulfur content to less than 5 mass ppm and to maintain an aromatic content of 13 to 30 mass %; the desulfurizing being carried out at a temperature of 200-350° C., a pressure of 10 MPa or less and a liquid hourly space velocity of 2 to 30 hr −1 ; and the porous desulfurization agent having a sulfur-sorbing function consisting essentially of a nickel-zinc complex oxide.