Buna SOW Leuna Refinery

Summary Information

• Ownership: Total
• Website: http://www.total.com/
• List of Total Refineries
• Location: Saxony-Anhalt
• Capacity: 12 million tons/annum & 240.000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity: 6.4

Refining Units

• Crude distillation unit: 230,000
• vacuum distillation units: 110,000
• Alkylation Unit
• catalytic reforming unit: 20,000
• hydrogeneration cracker: 74,000
• Hydrocracker:
• catalytic cracker unit: 60,000
• visbreaker unit: 28,800
• Diesel Desulphurisation

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil: The tank farm for storing crude oil houses ten tanks, each with a storage capacity of 30,000 cubic meters
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• Crude oil is supplied through the Druzhba Pipeline from Russia
• The Rostock-Schwedt Crude Oil Pipeline can supply other types of crude oil from the Baltic Sea terminal

Products Produced

• Gasoline, Diesel, Heating Oil
• Methanol, of which it is Europe’s second-largest producer

Projects

• A decision was made in 2007 to build a new desulphurisation unit in the Leuna refinery in order to supply the German market with low-sulphur heating oil.

Other Information

• The refinery replaced the two outdated refineries of Leuna and Zeitz

History

• 1997 - The TOTAL refinery went into operation after three years of construction
• 2007 - Kerosene hydro-desulphurization project launched
• 2014 - Revamp of alkylation plant completed

Links

1. Refinery Web Page (German)
2. FACTBOX-Total's European refineries
3. GERMANY - LEUNA 2000 REFINERY, Tekfen
4. Technip awarded a services contract for a hydrodesulphurization unit in Germany
5. Poerner Refinery References
6. Saipem Catalytic Reformer Units
7. Saipem Hydrocracking Units
8. Saipem Visbreaking Units
9. Saipem Vacuum Gasoil Desulphurisation