Provence Refinery
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Also known as Le Mede Refinery
Contents
Summary Information
- Ownership: Total
- Website: http://www.total.com/
- List of Total Refineries
- Location: Provence, France
- Capacity: 7.55 million tons/annum & 155,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
Refining Units
- CDU
- VDU
- FCC
- Diesel Desulphurisation
- Catalytic reforming unit
- Visbreaking Unit
- Isomerisation Unit
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
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Products Produced
LPG, Gasoline, Diesel
Projects
- An investment of €200 million is underway, to transform the La Mède refinery to create France’s first biorefinery, which will be one of the biggest in Europe, to meet growing demand for biofuels.
- Crude oil processing was halted at end-2016
Other Information
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History
- 1992 - Explosion in FCC Unit
- 2015 - Total announced the refinery will close in 2016
- 2016 - The refinery was closed down
