Miro Karlsruhe Refinery

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Summary Information

  • Ownership: Shell/Liwathon Group/Rosneft/Conoco
  • Website: http://www.miro-ka.de/english/default.htm
  • Location: Karlsruhe, southwest Germany
  • Capacity: 16 million tons/annum & 320,000 bbl/day
  • Nelson Complexity: 9.75
  • Refining depth: 87.5%

Refining Units

  • Crude Oil distillation plant: 14.9
  • Vacuum distillation plant: 7.2
  • Sulfur Removal Plant
    • For Petrol or Gasoline: 4.1
    • For distillate Fuels: 10.8
  • Reformer Plant: 2.4
  • Catalytic Cracking Plant (FCC): 4.5
  • Visbreaker: 1.4
  • Coker: 1.7
  • Steam Generation: 600 - 800 Tons per hour
  • Power Generation: 60 - 80 MW

Terminal Capacity

  • Crude Oil:
  • Refined Products:

Crude Supply

  • The refinery processes crude oil and other feedstocks supplied by each of the owners in proportion to their respective ownership interests
  • Mainly from Eastern Europe / Central Asia and Africa
  • Delivery through Pipelines:

Products Produced

  • Propylene
  • Propane
  • Butane
  • Naphtha
  • Normal Gasoline Fuel
  • Euro super Fuel with an octane rating of 95
  • Super plus Fuel with an octane rating of 98
  • Diesel Fuel
  • Light Heating Oil
  • Heavy Heating Oil
  • Bitumen Street
  • Calcines
  • Coke Fuel
  • Sulphur

Projects

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Other Information

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History

  • 1962 - the Esso Refinery was commissioned
  • 1963 - the Refinery Dea Scholven Inc. (as of 1969 Oberrhein Oil Refinery Inc. or OMW for short) was commissioned
  • 1997 - the two previously independent Karlsruhe refineries, owned by Esso and OMW, merged to form MiRO - Mineralölraffinerie Oberrhein GmbH & Co. KG.
  • 2010 - Rosneft acquires PDVSA's share in Ruhr Oel
  • 2016 - Rosneft acquires BP's stake
  • 2018 - Coker revamp completed
  • 2023 - Liwathon Group Acquires 25% Stake from Exxon

Links

  1. Phillips 66 Refinery Information
  2. BP Refineries Table xls
  3. Process Flow Diagram
  4. Karlsruhe Port History
  5. Poerner Refinery References
  6. Saipem Catalytic Reformer Units
  7. Rosneft to Acquire 50% of Ruhr Oel GmbH
  8. Rosneft and BP Conclude Dissolution of the Refining Joint Venture Ruhr Oel GmbH in Germany
  9. Liwathon Group Acquires 25% Stake in Germany's MIRO Refinery from Esso Deutschland