Porto Marghera Venice Refinery

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Summary Information

  • Ownership: ENI
  • Website: http://www.eni.com/
  • List of ENI Refineries
  • Location: Venice, Italy
  • Capacity:
    • Previously: 3.5 million tons/annum & 70,000 bbl/day
    • Biorefinery: 0.36 million tons/annum & 8,000 bbl/day
  • Nelson Complexity:
  • Refining Depth:

Brief Description

  • A biorefinery that produces renewable diesel from vegetable oils
  • Venice was a small, low complexity refinery

Refining Units

  • Currently
    • Ecofining unit
  • Previously
    • Atmospheric Distillation
    • Visbreaker
    • Thermal Cracker - 15,100 BPSD
    • isomerization
    • Reformer
    • desulphurization plants
    • sulphur recovery plants

Terminal Capacity

  • Crude Oil:
  • Refined Products:

Crude Supply

  • The processed crude oil comes mainly from the Middle East, North Africa and Russia
  • Crude oil is delivered at the San Leonardo landing stage, which can be reached by oil tankers of up to 85 thousand tons in capacity, and sent, through an oil pipeline under the lagoon 11 km long and with a diameter of 42” (about 107 cm), to the tanks on the Isola dei Petroli

Products Produced

  • Currently
    • In addition to Green Diesel, the Biorefinery also produces other biofuels such as Green Nafta, Green LPG and, in the future, also Green Jet
  • Previously
    • Gasoline
    • Diesel
    • Fuel Oil
    • Sulphur

Projects

Other Information

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History

  • 1926 - Refinery set up
  • 1934 - Refinery bought by Agip, and expanded
  • 1947 - The Anglo Iranian Oil Company (BP) and Agip set up a JV to reconstruct the refinery
  • 1968 - Isomerisation unit commissioned
  • 1978 - Eni bought out its partner
  • 1989 - Thermal cracker project
  • 2012 - Eni announced the refinery was to be converted into a Green Refinery
  • 2014 - The green refinery began production

Links

  1. Atmospheric Gasoil Desulphurisation
  2. Saipem Vacuum Distillation Units
  3. Saipem Residue Conversion Units
  4. Saipem Isomerisation Units
  5. Saipem LPG Treatment Units
  6. Saipem Naphtha Treating Units
  7. Saipem Visbreaking Units
  8. Saipem Sulphur Block Units
  9. Venice Refinery Brochure
  10. Refinery Webpage
  11. Eni: a new future for the Refinery of Venice