Gela Refinery

Summary Information

• Ownership: ENI
• Website: http://www.eni.com/
• List of ENI Refineries
• Location: on the southern coast of Sicily
• Capacity:
  • Previously:5.0 million tons/annum & 100,000 bbl/day
  • Currently: 0.75 million tons/annum & 15,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:

Brief Description

• The refinery has been converted into a biorefinery

Refining Units

• Biorefinery
  • Ecofining™ plant, (two existing desulphurisation units were modified)
  • Steam reforming unit
• Previously
  • Atmospheric Crude Distillation
  • VDU
  • FCC
  • Delayed Coker
  • Alkylation unit
  • Catalytic Reformer
  • Hydrogen Unit
  • Sulphur Recovery Unit
  • LPG Treatment
  • Desulphurisation
  • Naphtha
  • Gasoil

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• waste from food production, regenerated used cooking oil (RUCO), animal fat (tallow) and by-products from processing vegetable oil
• It used to process heavy crude produced from nearby Eni fields offshore and onshore Sicily.

Products Produced

• Green diesel

Projects

• The Gela Refinery Renovation Project was launched in 2013

Other Information

• It used to supply large volumes of petrochemical feedstock to Eni's in site petrochemical plants.

History

• 1963 - Refinery commissioned by Snamprogetti with 40,000 bpd capacity
• 1968 - Vacuum Distillation, Alkylation unit & FCC commissioned
• 1986 - Capacity increased by 38,000 bpd + Coker capacity increased
• 1989 - Sulphur recovery unit commissioned
• 1990 - Gasoil HDS, Hydrogen Unit & LPG Treating Unit commissioned
• 2003 - A new 90,000 bpd capacity CDU installed
• 2007 - CCR Reformer, Naphtha HT & Isomerisation unit commissioned
• 2012 - Partial and temporary stoppage announced at the Gela Refinery
• 2013 - Renovation project announced

Links

1. Atmospheric Gasoil Desulphurisation
2. Saipem Catalytic Reformer Units
3. Saipem Isomerisation Units
4. Saipem Naphtha Treating Units
5. Saipem Residue Conversion Units
6. Saipem Vacuum Distillation Units
7. Saipem Vacuum Gasoil Desulphurisation
8. Refinery Webpage
9. The Gela Refinery in Sicily, Alfa Laval
10. Eni: partial and temporary stoppage at the Gela Refinery
11. Eni: Project for the renovation and recovery of the Gela refinery
12. Eni opens its bio-refinery in Gela