Preemraff Lysekil Refinery
Summary Information Ownership: Preem Website: http://www.preem.se/ Location: Brofjorden, Lysekil about 120 km north of the town of Gothenburg on the west coast of Sweden Capacity: 11.4 million tonnes/annum, 220,000 bbl/day Nelson Complexity: Refining Depth: Brief Description A large medium complexity refinery Refining Units Atmospheric Distillation Hydrocracker Isomerization unit Visbreaker Desulphurisation Terminal Capacity Crude Oil: The storage include four crude oil caverns each having a capacity of 200.000 m3 140.000 m3 (1 million barrels) Refined Products: Four product caverns for storage of diesel- and fuel oils and having a respective capacity of 44.000, 85.000, 73.000 and 85.000 m3 750.000 m3 (4.6 million barrels) Crude Supply Mostly crude form the North Sea Products Produced - Ongoing Projects A new Vacuum distillation unit is to be commisioned in 2019 Foster Wheeler AG has been awarded a contract by Preem AB (Publ) Preemraff Lysekil (Preem) to perform the basic engineering design (BED) and front-end engineering design (FEED) for Preem's Energy Savings Program 2013 Honeywell is replacing the control systems Other Information - History 1975 - Refinery is commissioned 1982 - A Visbreaker was commissioned A fluidized catalytic cracker was completed in autumn 1984. 1988 - A mild hydrocracker was installed 1990 - An isomerization unit was commissioned In 1994 a sulphur tail gas treatment plant was commissioned and the diesel hydrotreating plant was rebuilt into a desulphurisation/dearomatization unit. 2002 - a new unit for production of polymer grade propylene was started. 2005 - Foster Wheeler Awarded Study Contract For Fuel Oil Upgrading 2006 - A new Hydrocracker and a hydrogen production unit were started. 2007 - Preem announces a coker project for the refinery 2009 - The Coker project is put on hold 2009 - Visbreaker commissioned 2016 - Contract signed for residue hydrocracker Relevant Links Technip Refining References Persson inaugurated the new plant to produce sulfur-free diesel Preem to invest 6 billion in Lysekil Foster Wheeler Awarded Study Contract For Fuel Oil Upgrading by Preem Petroleum AB, Sweden The Coker project at Preemraff Lysekil has been put on hold Honeywell To Modernize Nordics’ Largest Refinery CB&I Announces Technology and Development Contract for Residue Upgrading Complex in Sweden Supplementary information concerning IMO 2020 regulations
