Collombey-Muraz Refinery

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Summary Information

  • Ownership: Tamoil
  • Website: http://www.tamoil.com/
  • Location: Collombey-Muraz, Valais, Switzerland
  • Capacity: 2.7 million tons/annum & 54,000 bbl/day
  • Nelson Complexity:
  • Refining Depth:

+++ Brief Description

  • Collombey is a small resid-cracking refinery with high degree of conversion

+++ Refining Units

  • Atmospheric Distillation
  • Vacuum Distillation Unit
  • Resid Fluidised Catalytic Cracker
  • Catalytic Reformer

+++ Terminal Capacity

  • The refinery has 90 storage tanks with a total capacity of 795,000 cubic metres for crude oil and products
  • Crude Oil:
  • Refined Products:

+++ Crude Supply

  • The Collombey refinery is supplied with crude oil by a 340 km oil pipeline linking the port of Genoa to Collombey

+++ Products Produced

  • The refinery currently produces unleaded 95 and 98 octane petrol, diesel oil, extra-light and heavy heating oil, kerosene and liquefied petroleum gases

+++ Ongoing Projects

  • -

+++ Other Information

  • -

+++ History

  • 1962 - The refinery is commissioned by Snamproggetti
  • 1990 - Tamoil acquires the refinery
  • 2004 - The construction of the refinery’s total residue conversion units was completed
  • 2015 - Tamoil decides to mothball the refinery

+++ Relevant Links

  1. Refinery Webpage
  2. Technip Refining References
  3. Saipem Grass Roots Refineries
  4. Saipem Atmospheric Crude Distillation Units
  5. Saipem Catalytic Reformer Units
  6. Tamoil SA is considering the suspension of its refining operations in Collombey