Kalundborg Refinery

Summary Information

• Ownership: Equinor
• Website: https://www.equinor.com/
• Location: Kalundborg in Denmark
• Capacity: 5.5 million tons/annum & 110,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:

Refining Units

• CDU, 110,000 bbl/day
• VDU
• Hydrocracker
• Diesel Desulphurisation, 20,000 bbl/day
• Visbreaking unit

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• The refinery primarily processes various crude oils and condensates from the North Sea, which are brought in by ship.
• Condensate comes chiefly from the Sleipner area via Statoil’s gas processing plant at Kårstø north of Stavanger.

Products Produced

• petrol, jet fuel, diesel oil, propane, heating oil and fuel oil.
• Kalundborg delivers petrol and diesel oil with less than 50 ppm (0.005%) of sulphur.

Projects

• The refinery began to produce agricultural fertiliser in 2000, utilising a completely new facility designed in cooperation with Denmark’s Haldor Topsøe Ltd.
• Built at a cost of DKK 400 million, the Synflex facility came on stream in the summer of 2002 with an annual capacity of about one million tonnes of sulphur-free diesel oil (defined as 10 parts per million of sulphur, or 0.001%).

Other Information

• Countries around the Baltic represent the principal market for products from the refinery.
• The fertiliser plant converts sulphur and nitrogen from the desulphurisation process for oil products into liquid ammonium thiosulphate (ATS). The result has been a substantial reduction in emissions of sulphur and nitrogen oxides from the refinery.

History

• 1960 DanskVedolA/S built the refinery (20 kbbl/d)
• 1963 DanskESSO A/S takes over the refinery, the capacity is expanded to 70 kbbl/d in 1967
• 1981 The Visbreakeris installed (fuel oil conversion)
• 1982 The Powerformercapacity is expanded (reduction in lead)
• 1985 The Jetfuelunit is installed
• 1986 Statoil takes over the refinery
• 1986 Improvement of the waste water treatment plant
• 1989 VPS/TC project for increased fuel oil conversion
• 1990 Sulphur Plant is installed (clausunit) Mild hydrocracker(fuel oil conversion) Power former expansion
• 1995 Condensate refinery is inaugurated
• 1996 Low benzene gasoline is introduced
• 1997 Agreement about technical support for the SIRI oilfield
• 1998 - Soaker Visbreaker is in operation (heavy fuel to diesel)

Links

1. Refinery Webpage
2. Statoil Kalundborg Refinery Presentation
3. Kalundborg Refinery Resumed Full Production Nov 6th 2009