Catalyst formulation for cracking crude oils to produce light olefins and aromatics

A process for upgrading crude oil, the process comprising:

• passing a crude oil feed to a catalytic cracking system comprising a cracking reactor, where the crude oil feed is a whole crude oil or a desalted crude oil;
• contacting the crude oil feed with a cracking catalyst composition in the cracking reactor at high-severity reaction conditions, where:
• the cracking catalyst composition comprises a mixture of Y-zeolite particles and cracking additive particles;
• the Y-zeolite particles comprise silicon dioxide, aluminum oxide, iron (III) oxide, titanium (IV) oxide, phosphorous (V) pentoxide, sodium dioxide, and aluminum sulfate;
• the cracking additive particles comprise ZSM-5 zeolite particles, aluminum phosphate, calcined Kaolin clay, aluminum oxide, and quartz;
• the contacting causes at least a portion of hydrocarbons in the crude oil feed to undergo one or more cracking reactions to produce a cracking effluent and a used cracking catalyst composition;
• and
• the cracking effluent comprises light olefins, light aromatic compounds, or both.