Process for heavy, whole crude conversion to valuable chemicals through integrated crude conditioning and steam cracking

A process for converting whole crudes and other heavy hydrocarbon streams to produce olefins and/or aromatics, the process comprising:

• separating a whole crude into at least a light boiling fraction, a medium boiling fraction, and a high boiling residue fraction;
• processing the high boiling residue fraction in a solvent deasphalting unit to produce a deasphalted oil fraction and a pitch fraction;
• hydroprocessing the pitch fraction in an ebullated bed residue hydrocracking unit to produce an ultra-low sulfur fuel oil and a hydroprocessed fraction;
• combining the medium boiling fraction, the hydroprocessed fraction, and the deasphalted oil fraction;
• destructively hydrogenating the combined medium boiling fraction, the hydroprocessed fraction, and the deasphalted oil fraction in a fixed bed conditioning section to produce a steam crackable hydrocarbons;
• feeding the steam crackable hydrocarbons and the light boiling fraction to a steam cracker to convert hydrocarbons therein into one or more light olefins, a C5+ fraction, and a pyrolysis oil.