Cremona Refiney

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Summary Information

  • Ownership: Tamoil
  • Website: http://www.tamoil.com/
  • Location: Po valley, Italy
  • Capacity: 4.8 million tons/annum & 96,000 bbl/day
  • Nelson Complexity:
  • Refining Depth:

+++ Brief Description

  • A medium sized medium complexity refinery

+++ Refining Units

  • [[[Atmospheric Distillation]]]
  • Visbreaker
  • dewaxing plant,
  • three plants for desulphurization of middle distillates,
  • reforming system for petrol (JRC),
  • two plants of isomerisation gasoline,
  • selective hydrogenation of cracked gasoline,
  • LPG sweetening unit and light naphtha,
  • two sulfur plants

+++ Terminal Capacity

  • Crude Oil:
  • Refined Products:

+++ Crude Supply

  • The refinery receives crude oil at the port of Genoa. Crude oil discharged at Genoa for Tamoil is pumped through the [[[Genoa-Ferrera-Cremona Oil Pipeline]]] to a storage plant at Ferrera, and then on to Cremona.

+++ Products Produced

  • liquefied petroleum gas, virgin naphtha for petrochemical plants, jet fuel, petrol, diesel oil, gas oil for heating systems and low sulphur fuel oil.


+++ Ongoing Projects

  • For Details see [[[Cremona Refinery Upgrade Project]]]
  • The refinery was to be upgraded to enable it to utilise heavier crude and to boost middle distillates.
  • The upgrade of existing facilities include works to the crude distillation unit, or CDU, and catalytic dewaxing unit, or CDW.
  • New construction includes a vacuum distillation unit, or VDU, integrated to the CDU, a new heavy conversion unit, or HCU, a hydrogen manufacturing unit, or HMU, and transforming the visbreaking unit to diesel thermal cracking.
  • Environmental approval was given 13th October 2009.


+++ Other Information

  • * The refinery has been [[[Refineries That Are Closed Down | closed down]]] and converted into a terminal

+++ History

  • 1965 - Refinery commissioned with 21,000 bpd capacity
  • 1982 - Visbreaker unit added
  • 1988 - Tamoil acquired the refinery
  • 2010 - Closure announced
  • 2011 - Refinery closed down

+++ Relevant Links

  1. Refinery Webpage (Italian)
  2. Environmental approval for upgrade
  3. [[[Saipem Visbreaking Units]]]
  4. [[[Saipem Atmospheric Crude Distillation Units]]]
  5. [[[Saipem Atmospheric Gasoil Desulphurisation]]]
  6. [[[Saipem Naphtha Treating Units]]]
  7. [[[Saipem Sulphur Block Units]]]
  8. The refinery in Cremona will be transformed into a Terminal
  9. Tamoil has signed an agreement for the permanent closure of the refinery in Cremona