Buenos Aires Refinery

Summary Information

• Ownership: Raizen
• Website: https://www.raizen.com.ar/
• Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Capacity: 5.0 million tons/annum & 100,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Refining Depth:

Brief Description

• A medium sized, medium complexity refinery

Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation
• Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) unit
• Hydrotreating
• Catalytic reforming

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil: 175,000 m3
• Refined Products: 600,000 m3

Crude Supply

• Virtually all crude processed at the refinery are domestic, extracted from deposits in Santa Cruz, Chubut, Tierra del Fuego and Black River.
• The oils are transported from their fields to the refinery mostly by sea, but also received by pipeline

Products Produced

• Liquefied Petroleum Gas, Gasolines Diesel, Jet-A1, Solvents and white spirit, Gas oil, Bunker fuel oil, for ships, Basic lubricating oils, asphalt

Projects

• The FCC is undergoing a modernisation which includes the addition of an FCC gasoline hydrodesulphurization unit

Other Information

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History

• 1931 - Refinery commissioned
• 2008 - Expansion of diesel hydrotreating
• 2018 - Raizen acquires the refinery
• 2021 - KBR awarded contract to modernise the FCC

Links

1. Refinery Webpage (Spanish)
2. Shell completes sale of its Downstream business in Argentina to Raízen
3. KBR Awarded FCC Technology Contract by Raízen Argentina
4. Axens will supply a modular Prime-G+ ® unit to Raizen Buenos Aires Refinery