Hamburg (Holburn) Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Tamoil
- Website:
- Location: Hamburg, Germany
- Capacity: 4.7 million tons/annum & 105,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- Hamburg is a cat-cracking refinery with medium conversion, the core units were built in 1972
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Vacuum Distillation - 1,030
- FCC 1.150
- Catalytic Reformer (Discontinuous) 0.96
- Isomerisation 0.29
- Desulphurisation (Gasoline) 1.84 mn tons
- Desulphurisation (M.Distillate) 3.20 mn tons
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- A pipeline measuring 147 km in length supplies crude oil to the refinery from the North West Oil Management deep water terminal in Wilhelmshaven.
- Much of the crude comes from Libya
Products Produced
- A full range of refined products, i.e. liquefied petroleum gases, petrol, petrochemical grade naphtha, kerosene, diesel, heating and fuel oils are obtained.
- Products meet Euro V specifications
Ongoing Projects
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Other Information
- The refinery was not in use when Tamoil acquired it from ESSO
History
- 1983 - Visbreaker commissioned
- 1985 - Refinery closed by Exxon
- 1987 - Acquired by Tamoil
- 1989 - Crude pipeline commissioned
- 1990 - Propylene production starts
- 1997 - Capacity increased from 80,000 to 100,000 bpd
- 1999 - Isomerisation unit commissioned
- 2003 - Clean Fuels modernisation programme completed
