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=== Brief Description === | === Brief Description === | ||
* A large complex greenfield refinery that produces a high middle distillate yield and petrochemical feed-stocks | * A large complex greenfield refinery that produces a high middle distillate yield and petrochemical feed-stocks | ||
+ | * A petrochemical plant, Petkim, is located next door | ||
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=== Refining Units === | === Refining Units === | ||
* Crude distillation unit | * Crude distillation unit |
Latest revision as of 10:48, 19 March 2020
Contents
Summary Information
- Ownership: Socar / Turcas
- Website: http://www.socarturcas.com.tr/
- Location: Aliaga, Western Turkey
- Capacity: 10 million tons/annum & 214,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
Brief Description
- A large complex greenfield refinery that produces a high middle distillate yield and petrochemical feed-stocks
- A petrochemical plant, Petkim, is located next door
Refining Units
- Crude distillation unit
- Vacuum distillation unit
- Naphtha hydrotreating
- Delayed coking unit - 40,000 BPSD
- Hydrocracking unit - 66,000 BPSD
- Prime-K unit - jet fuel treatment - 26.000
- Prime-D unit - ULSD 68.000
- LPG caustic treatment units,
- continuous catalytic reformer - 28,000 BPSD
- saturated gas unit
- amine and sour water stripper,
- sulphur and tail gas treatment units
- Hydrogen unit - 160,000 Nm(3)/h
Terminal Capacity
- With its 63 tanks, the total storage capacity of the refinery will be of 1.640 million tons approximately.
Crude Supply
- The design for STAR Refinery will enable to process different types of crude oil such as Urals, Azeri Light Crude Oil and Kirkuk
Products Produced
- The refinery will have a yearly production of 4.8 million tons of ultra-low sulphur diesel, 1.6 million tons of naphtha, 0.42 million tons of mixed xylene, 1.6 million tons of jet fuel, 0.32 million tons of LPG, 0.49 million tons of reformate, 0.69 million tons of petro-coke and 0.16 million tons of sulphur at its full capacity operation
Projects
- The refinery was commissioned in 2019
- See Aliaga STAR Refinery Project
Other Information
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History
- 2010 - SOCAR-TURCAS Joint Venture gets license
- 2014 - Foster Wheeler awarded PMC contract
- 2018 - The refinery construction is completed
- 2019 - Commercial production launched