Fort de France Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: SARA (Société Anonyme de la Raffinerie des Antilles) Total 50%, Rubis 24%, ExxonMobil 14.5%, and Chevron 11.5%
- Website: http://www.sara.mq/raf/sara.nsf/home?readform (French)
- Location: Fort De France
- Capacity: million tons/annum & 16.000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
+++ Refining Units
- CDU: 16,000 bbl/day
- Distillate Hydrotreating: 8;000 bbl/day
- Catalytic Cracking: 3,000 bbl/day
- Diesel Desulphurisation
+++ Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
+++ Crude Supply
- Crude approved in SARA can both come from the North Sea (Flotta, Ekofisk, Oseberg, ...) and that of Venezuela (Santa Barbara).
+++ Products Produced
- LPG, Gasoline, Diesel, Jet Fuel & Fuel Oil
+++ Ongoing Projects
+++ Other Information
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+++ History
- 1969: Creation of the Anonymous Society of Caribbean Refinery
- 1970: Start of deposit Jarry (Guadeloupe)
- 1971 : Start of the refinery (Martinique)
- Many investments have subsequently accompanied the development of society, including:
- 1982 : Commissioning of deposit Degrad des Cannes (Cayenne, Guyana)
- 1991: Construction of the pipeline carrying fuel from the refinery and the airport Lamentin (Martinique)
- 1994: Extension of Filing of Jarry and construction of the pipeline carrying fuel between the deposit and Jarry Airport Raizet (Guadeloupe)
- 1995: Expansion of the refinery. Commissioning of: the new unit for hydrodesulphurisation of diesel fuels.
- Sulferox the unit of recovery of sulfur in fuel gas
- the new Control Room Blast-proof and Digital System Centralized Control (SSAC) of manufacturing units
- the new unit of Wastewater Treatment
- 1996 : Commissioning of:
* Blast-resistant new Laboratory * Gas Turbine electricity generation
- 2000 : Commissioning of the new deposit Kourou (Guyana), and closure of the Depot of Santa Teresa (Fort de France, Martinique)
- 2001 : Turning the slope of the spheres-butane (Martinique) and establishment of units vapor recovery (in Martinique and Guadeloupe)
- 2004: Decommissioning Depot St. Teresa (Fort-de-France, Martinique)
- 2005: Establishment of a Unit vapor recovery deposit Degrad des Cannes
- 2006: Launch of new projects:
* Project Refining Essences "
- 2007: Commissioning of the refining column species and new storage (Martinique)
- 2014 - Rubis announces talks to acquire refinery
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