Premium I Refinery Project

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Summary Information

  • Ownership: Petrobras
  • Website: http://www.petrobras.com
  • Wiki Page:
  • Location: Maranhão, Brazil
  • Capacity: 30 million tons/annum & 600,000 bbl/day
  • Nelson Complexity:
  • Project Stage: Basic Engineering (2010)
  • Expected Completion: [[[Refinery Projects to be Completed in 2016 | 2016]]]
  • Budget:

The Project

  • Project Type: Greenfield Refinery
  • Project Summary: A two train, large complex refinery, designed for maximum diesel production
  • Main Contractors:
* **UOP:** Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contractor 
* **Foster Wheeler:** Subcontracted for the FEED
  • Licences:
* **UOP:** UnicrackingTM hydrocracking process and the UOP UnionfiningTM hydrotreating 
* **Foster Wheeler:** Selective Yield Delayed Coking (SYDECSM) technology 

Refining Units

  • Atmospheric Distillation - 2 * 300,000 bpd
  • Vacuum Distillation
  • Hydrocracker
  • Diesel Desulphurisation
  • Delayed Coker - FW
  • Hydrogen Unit - FW
  • Sour water stripper
  • Amine regeneration
  • Sulfur recovery unit.

Terminal Capacity

  • Crude Oil:
  • Refined Products:

Crude Supply

  • The refinery will process domestic crude, produced from Brazil's recent offshore discoveries


Products Produced

  • The refinery will produce premium automotive fuels with a high proportion of diesel

History

  • 2010 - UOP awarded process licences
  • 2010 - Foster wheeler awarded FEED contract
  • 2013 - Sinopec signed letter of intent to potentially enter the project

Other Information

  • Completion has been delayed until 2016


Links

  1. Petrobras has signed up a contract for the implementation of Premium I and Premium II Refineries
  2. Honeywell UOP Technology Selected By Petrobras For Two New Refineries To Expand Diesel Production
  3. Foster Wheeler Wins Basic Design and Feed Contract for Two Grassroots Refineries in Brazil
  4. Letter of Intent with SINOPEC
  5. Brazil Petrobras Delays Premium I Refinery Start Til 2016