Schwechat Refinery
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Contents
Summary Information
- Ownership: OMV
- Website: http://www.omv.com/
- List of OMV Refineries
- Location: Schwechat, near Vienna
- Capacity: 9.6 Million tons/annum & 192.000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity: 6.2
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Vacuum Distillation
- Fluidised Catalytic Cracker
- Hydrocracker
- Isomerisation Unit
- Diesel Desulphurisation -27,000 bpd
- A Deep thermal gasoil unit
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- Approx. one million tons of crude oil comes from domestic source, the rest from abroad, mainly Russia, Kazakhstan, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. The Vienna-Adriatic Pipeline (AWP), a branch of the Trans-Alpine Oil Pipeline (TAL) is pumping the crude oil imported from Trieste directly to the transfer station Schwechat.
Products Produced
- 95 Octane gasoline, 98 Octane gasoline, Diesel, Extra light fuel oil, Low sulfur fuel oil extra light, Light fuel oil, Heavy fuel oil, Jet A-1, Hydrogen, Ethylene, Propylene, Butadiene, Propane, Butane, Bitumen, Sulfur
Ongoing Projects
- -
Other Information
- The refinery replaced an earlier one that was built in 1938
History
- 1960 - Schwechat Refinery is commissioned
- 1963 - FCC Commissioned
- 1972 - Investments in desulfurisation plants (HDS2) and vacuum as well as atmospheric distillation plants (FP2; RD4)
- 1979 - Construction of a Mild Hydrocrackers
- 1983 - MTBE plant commissioned
- 2006 - Bitumen plant commissioned
- 2008 - The hydrodesulphurization plant HDS1, was expanded and revamped
- 2009 - A deep thermal gasoil unit (TGU) constructed by Uhde was commissioned
- 2014 - modernization of the crude oil distillation plant 4 completed
- 2017 - FCC modernisation project completed
Links
- MODERN DESIGN AND TROUBLESHOOTING TOOLS CREATE A SUCCESSFUL FCC REVAMP
- OMV Schwechat Refinery celebrates the 50th anniversary of its track record
- TGU commissioning at Schwechat, Austria
- Poerner Bitumen References
- Poerner Refinery References
- Saipem Oxygenates For Fuel Use
- Revamp of HDS1 plant in Schwechat successfuly completed
