Izmit Refinery

Summary Information

• Ownership: Tupras
• Website: http://www.tupras.com.tr/
• Location: İzmit, Turkey
• Capacity: 11.0 million tons/annum & 220,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity: 7.78
• Refining Depth:

Brief Description

• A large high complexity refinery that processes a wide range of medium and sour crudes, producing Euro V products
• The refinery has three crude oil trains

Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation
• Vacuum Distillation Unit
• Hydrocracker
• Fluidised Catalytic Cracker
• CCR Reformer
• Diesel Desulphurisation
• Kerosene Desulphurisation
• Merox
• Asphalt Unit
• Sulphur Recovery Unit

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• Iranian, Iraqi, Russia & Saudi Crudes

Products Produced

• LPG, naphtha, gasoline, jet fuel, kerosene, diesel, heating oil, fuel oil and asphalt

Projects

• See Izmit Refinery Upgrading Project RUP
• The refinery was upgraded in 2015, with the addition of a Coker / Hydrocracker complex

Other Information

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History

• 1961 - The Izmit Refinery started production with a 1 million ton/year capacity of crude oil processing
• 1982 - Design capacity reached 11.5 million tons/year
• 1996 - 23,000 bpd Hydrocracker and 12,500 bpd CCR Reformer commissioned
• 2007 - A CCR Reformer Unit and Diesel Desulfurization Unit (MQD) were put into operation
• 2011 - Construction of the upgrading project launched
• 2015 - The upgrade project was completed

Links

1. Tupras Refineries
2. Refinery Webpage
3. Catalytic Reformer Units
4. Saipem Hydrocracking Units
5. Saipem Sulphur Block Units
6. The Izmit Refinery New CCR Reformer Unit is one of the projects which has been implemented to achieve production conforming to EU environmental standards had been successfully put into operation