Abreu e Lima Refinery RNEST
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Petrobras
- Website: http://www.petrobras.com.br/en/
- List of Petrobras Refineries
- Location: Recife, Brazil
- Capacity: 6.5 million tons/annum & 130,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity: 9.6
- Refining depth
Brief Description
- Brazil's newest refinery, it is medium sized, high complexity with a very high diesel yield
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Crude Distillation Unit
- Vacuum Distillation Unit
- Delayed Coker
- Hydrogen Units - 2*125,000 Nm3/h
- Diesel Hydrotreaters - 2*83,000 BPSD
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- 50% of the crude will be Marlim Crude Oil from Brazil and 50% from Carabobo Crude Oil from Venezuela
- Crude will be 16 API
Products Produced
- Some 65% of the processed volume will be diesel fuel, the oil derivative that is used the most in Brazil. Cooking gas (LPG), petrochemical naphtha, and coke – solid fuel used in the steel, cement, thermal, and aluminum industries -, will also be produced
- Products produced will be Euro V compliant
Projects
- The refinery came in stream in 2014
- See Abreu e Lima Pernambuco RNEST Refinery Project
- A debottlenecking project is underway that will expand capacity by 15,000 bpd by 2025.
Other Information
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History
- 2005 - Petrobras executive board approve the project
- 2009 - Construction contracts signed
- 2014 - Commissioning started for the first train
- 2023 - Debottlenecking project launched
- 2024 - Petrobras decided to continue with the second trains project
- 2025 - De-bottlenecking project completed
