Port Clarence Teeside Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Petroplus
- Website: http://www.petroplusholdings.com
* List of [[[Petroplus Refineries]]]
- Location: Teeside North East England
- Capacity: 5.85 Million tons/annum & 117,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
+++ Brief Description
- A small and simple refinery, it has now been closed
+++ Refining Units
- [[[Atmospheric Distillation]]]
- Hydro Desulphurisation Unit
- LPG Recovery Unit
+++ Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products: 1.9 million barrels
+++ Crude Supply
- The refinery was originally commissioned to process North African crude
- With the development of North Sea oil, it switched to processing Norwegian [[[Ekofisk Crude Oil]]].
+++ Products Produced
- Naphtha, Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel & Bio-Diesel, Kerosene & Gas Oil, Fuel Oil
+++ Ongoing Projects
- -
+++ Other Information
- -
+++ History
- 1966 - Refinery commissioned
- 1981 - The large distillation unit was debottlenecked from 4 million tonnes to 5 million tonnes per year and the small distillation unit was permanently shut down and has been demolished
- 1996- The Dewaxing Unit was completely revamped to convert it to an HDS Unit to allow production of Low Sulphur Diesel. A Sulferfox Sulphur Recovery Unit and a new Sour Water Stripper were also installed.
- 2000 - Petroplus acquired the plant from Phillips Imperial Petroleum Ltd
- 2009 - Petroplus announces the mothballing of the refinery
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