Cartagena Reficar Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Ecopetrol
- Website: http://www.ecopetrol.com.co/
- Location: Mamonal of the Cartagena Bay, 30 minutes to the west of the Cartagena city on the northern coast of Colombia.
- Capacity: 8.25 million tons/annum & 165,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- The refinery is a large, high complex refinery, capable of processing heavy crudes, having bottom of the barrel cracking ability and producing low sulphur fuels
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Vacuum Distillation
- Visbreaking Units - 25,000 - Axens
- Fluid Catalytic Cracker - 29,000 - Exxon
- Light Ends Unit - 35,000 - UOP
- Polymerization Plants - 7,000 - UOP
- Amine Plants
- Sulfur Plants
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil & Refined Products: 134 tanks, with total storage capacity of more than 6.4 MM bbls
Crude Supply
- The refinery is capable of processing local crude with an average API of 27°
Products Produced
- LPG, Gasoline, Diesel, Fuel Oil
Projects
- In 2016 a major upgrade and expansion project was completed, increasing the refinery's capacity from 80,000 bpd to 165,000 bpd
- For details see Cartagena Reficar Refinery Project
- The project included revamping the existing units.
- It enabled REFICAR to produce clean, ultra-low sulfur gasoline and diesel from heavy crude.
Other Information
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History
- 1956 - The Refinery was built with an initial capacity of 26.3 kbpd
- 1957 - FCC unit commissioned
- 1964 - A substantial investment was made to increase its capacity to 47 kbpd
- 1974 - Ecopetrol acquired the refinery from Intercol
- 1983 - Its capacity was increased to 70 kbpd
- 2008 - KBR awarded FCC revamp project
- 2016 - Upgrade and expansion project completed
