Landulpho Alves RLAM Refinery

Summary Information

• Ownership: Acelen
• Website: https://www.acelen.com.br/
• Location: Northeastern Bahia, Brazil
• Capacity: million tons/annum & 323,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Refining Depth:

Brief Description

• Landulpho Alves is the second largest Brazilian refinery and is high complexity

Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation
• Vacuum Distillation
• Residue Fluid Catalytic Cracking (RFCC)
• Diesel DHT Units

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products: The refinery is connected by pipeline to 4 terminals

Crude Supply

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Products Produced

• LPG, Gasoline, Kerosene, Fuel Oil, Asphalt
• The refinery is the only Brazilian producer of food grade, a type of paraffin used for making, among others, chocolates and chewing gum, and of ­n-paraffins, an oil product used as feedstock in the production of biodegradable detergents.

Projects

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Other Information

• Following its acquisition, the plant has been renamed Mataripe Refinery

History

• 1950 - Refinery commissioned
• 1998 - A new distillation unit expanded installed capacity to 305,000 barrels per day
• 2008 - Techint awarded contract for construction of 2 Diesel HDT units
• 2019 - Privatisation process launched
• 2021 - Mubadala Capital acquired the refinery

Links

1. Refinery webpage
2. TECNA Oil And Gas Processing References
3. Toyo Refinery References
4. New contract with Petrobras
5. Petrobras starts binding phase of refineries
6. Petrobras completes sale of the Landulpho Alves Refinery (RLAM)