Minatitlan Refinery Project
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Pemex
- Website: http://www.pemex.com/
- List of Pemex Refineries
- Wiki Page: Minatitlan Refinery
- Location: Minatitlan, Veracruz, Mexico
- Capacity:
- Before: 8.45 million tons/annum & 169,000 bbl/day
- After: 16.0 million tons/annum & 320,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Project Stage: [[[Completed Refinery Projects | Completed]]]
- Expected Completion: [[[Refinery Projects to be Completed in 2011 | 2011]]]
- Budget: 42 billion pesos
+++ The Project
- Project Type: Upgrade
- Project Summary: Addition of a number of new units to increase capacity and modifications to the existing Hydrodesulfurization of Intermediate Distillates to obtain Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel (ULSD).
- Main Contractors:
- **Tecnicas Reunidas** awarded LSTK Contract for Engineering, Procurement and Construction
- **Uhde** has been awarded a contract for the Engineering Services
- **INTECSA** has the contract to build most of the units
- **Axens** North America, Process Licensor,
+++ Refining Units
- Delayed Coker Unit
- Vacuum crude oil distillation unit - 60,000 bpd
- Atmospheric crude oil distillation unit (150.000 BPSD)
- Fluid catalytic craker complex (42.000 BPSD)
- Hydrodesulfuration unit (37.000 BPSD)
- Catalytic hydrogenation - 34.000 BPSD
+++ Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
+++ Crude Supply
- Increasing the proportion of heavy oil processed from 33% to 71% with a new refining train processing 100% [[[Maya Crude Oil]]]
+++ Products Produced
- The project doubles the production of gasoline and reduces sulphur levels to 15 ppm
+++ History
- 2005 - Tecnicas Reunidas awarded LSTK Contract for Engineering, Procurement and Construction
- 2011 - Refinery opened by President Felipe Calderón
+++ Other Information
- The oldest refinery in Latin America
+++ Relevant Links
- Vepica Refinery Project References
- Uhde Downstream Oil And Gas Projects
- Minatitlán Refinery Reconfiguration Packet 4 Electrical, Instrumentation & Control Works, Mexico
- Construction Of New Refinery Units
- Speech by President Felipe Calderón at the opening event of the reconfiguration of the refinery "General Lázaro Cárdenas
- Tecnicas Reunidas Projects
