Emsland Lingen Refinery
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Contents
Summary Information
- Ownership: BP
- Website: www.bp.com
- Location: Lingen, Germany
- Capacity: 4.5 million tons/annum & 90,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation, 4,500,000 tons
- Vacuum Distillation 2,100,000 tons
- Hydro-cracker 1,450,000 tons
- Coker 1,250,000 tons
- Catalytic Cracker (Continuous) 1,000,000 tons
- Isomerisation 340,000 tons
- Desulphurisation (Gasoline) 1,250,000 tons
- Desulphurisation (M.Distillate) 2,130,000 tons
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- Approximately one third of the processed crude oil comes from Germany, mainly from the production fields of the region.
- Imported crude oils are supplied through the NWO pipeline which went into operation in 1958
- Since 2011 it has also been processing crude from the Schoonebeek Oil Field, just across the border in the Netherlands
Products Produced
- LPG (propane, butane)
- Gasoline
- Jet fuels
- Diesel fuel
- Light heating oil
- Heavy heating oil (as needed)
- Petroleum coke and calcinated petroleum coke
- Sulphur
Ongoing Projects
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Other Information
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History
- 1953 - Refinery starts operations
- 1976 - The hydrocracker (HC) plant and its subsequent investment, construction of which began was the core of the refinery restructuring.
- 2002 - BP today took over 100% of Veba Oel
- 2004 - Revamp of coking plant completed with capacity increase
- 2011 - A small fire broke out in the CDU
