Taranto Refinery

Summary Information

• Ownership: ENI
• Website: http://www.eni.com/
• List of ENI Refineries
• Location: Taranto, Italy
• Capacity: 5.5 million tons/annum & 110,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Refining Depth: 64.8%

Brief Description

• A medium sized, complex refinery

Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation
• Vacuum Distillation
• Visbreaker / Thermal Cracker
• Desulphurisation
  • Gasoline
  • Diesel
• Isomerisation Unit - 4,000 bpd
• Resid Hydrocracking Unit
• Residue hydrotreating unit
• Sulphur Recovery Unit

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• It processes most of the oil produced in Eni's Val D Agri Oil Field carried to Taranto through the Monte Alpi Crude Oil Pipeline
• Since 2019, it can also process crude from the Tempa Rossa Oil Field
• It also processes crude from the Middle East, North and Russia

Products Produced

• It principally produces fuels for automotive use and residential heating purposes for the Southern Italian markets

Projects

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Other Information

• The refinery also acts as an export terminal for domestic crude

History

• 1967 - Refinery commissioned by Snamprogetti with 80,000 bpd capacity
• 1982 - Visbreaker commissioned
• 1989 - Isomerisation Unit commissioned
• 2006 - Residue hydrotreating unit revamped
• 2007 - New Atmospheric Crude Distillation Unit commissioned
• 2010 - A new hydro-cracking unit integrated with the RHU facility started production
• 2013 - ABB wins contract for new export pier

Links

1. Refinery Webpage
2. Refinery Brochure, (Italian)
3. Saipem Grass Roots Refineries
4. Atmospheric Gasoil Desulphurisation
5. Saipem Atmospheric Crude Distillation Units
6. Saipem Catalytic Reformer Units
7. Saipem Naphtha Treating Units
8. Saipem Vacuum Distillation Units
9. Saipem Visbreaking Units
10. Saipem Isomerisation Units
11. Saipem Sulphur Block Units
12. Successful Test Run of UFR at ENI’s Taranto Refinery
13. ABB wins $40 million order to upgrade oil transportation infrastructure in Italy