Feyzin Refinery

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Summary Information

Refining Units

  • crude distillation unit: 120,000
  • vacuum crude distillation unit: 40,000
  • catalytic reforming unit: 8,000
  • hydro desulphurisation units: 64,000
  • fluid catalytic cracker: 32,000
  • visbreaker unit: 16,000

Terminal Capacity

  • Crude Oil:
  • Refined Products:

Crude Supply

  • Crude is supplied via The South European Pipeline

Products Produced

  • Unleaded gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuel and home heating oil with a low sulfur content, heavy fuel oil, liquefied petroleum gas and asphalt. Its petrochemical units manufacture basic feedstocks such as ethylene, propylene, butadiene and aromatics for the chemical industry.

Projects

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Other Information

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History

  • 1966 - A major fire at a LPG storage tank in the refinery killed 18 people and injured 81 others

Links

  1. FACTBOX-Total's European refineries
  2. Refinery fire at Feyzin. 4th January 1966