Burghausen Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: OMV
- Website: http://www.omv.com/
- Location: Bavaria, Germany
- Capacity: 3.5 Million tons/annum & 70.000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity: 7.3
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- A small refinery with a large coker, making it complex, despite not having a large number of units. It also has integrated petrochemicals.
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Coking Unit,
- Desulphurisation
- Steam cracker
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- The refinery uses high-quality and low-sulphur crude oil grades
- The crude is supplied via the Trans Alpine Pipeline
Products Produced
- Middle distillates such as kerosene, diesel and heating oil are produced.
- The refinery focuses on petrochemicals - the entire gasoline cut flows into the production of petrochemical raw materials such as ethylene, propylene and butadiene
- Ethylene is supplied to the Ethylen-Pipeline Süd
- Munich airport is supplied with jet fuel by 125 km pipeline
Projects
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Other Information
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History
- 1967 - Burghausen Refinery begins operations
- 1987 - OMV acquired the refinery
- 1992 - Munich airport pipeline opened
- 2000 - Commissioning of a new gasoil hydrotreater of 12000 bpsd with deep de-sulphurisation and de-aromatisation to meet the 2005 European legislation for Diesel
- 2007 - Metathesis plant commissioned
- 2015 - Butadiene plant began operations
