STAR Aliaga Refinery

Summary Information

• Ownership: Socar / Turcas
• Website: http://www.socarturcas.com.tr/
• Wiki Page: STAR Aliaga Refinery
• 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

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 is commissioned
• 2019 - Commercial production launched

Links

1. SOCAR’s giant investment project - STAR Refinery launched