Ashdod Refinery

Summary Information

• Ownership: PAZ
• Website: http://www.paz.co.il/
• Location: Ashdod, Israel
• Capacity: 4.5 million tons/annum & 90,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity: 7.5
• Refining Depth:

+++ Brief Description

• A medium sized medium complexity refinery

+++ Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation
• Vacuum - 46,000bbls/d
• Visbreaking - 26,000bbls/d
• Fluid catalytic cracking - 29,000bbls/d
• Catalytic reforming - 12,000bbls/d
• Catalytic hydrotreating
  • Naphtha - 22,000bbls/d
  • Kerosene - 14,000bbls/d
  • Gasoil - 17,500bbls/d
  • FCC gasoline - 18,500bbls/d
• Oxygenates - 900bbls/d

+++ Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil: 200,000m3
• Refined Products: 500,000m3
• Toatl: 700,000m3

+++ Crude Supply

• The crude oil is supplied via the Eilat Ashkelon Crude Oil Pipeline
• The refinery is to process condensate from Tamar Gas Field

+++ Products Produced

• LPG, Gasoline, Diesel, Jet Fuel, Fuel Oil

+++ Ongoing Projects

• -

+++ Other Information

• -

+++ History

• 1973 - Refinery is commissioned
• 1992 – Major expansion programme with addition of FCC1 unit, SRU2 and MTBE3 plant
• 2003 - New FCC gasoline HDS4 introduced, Debottlenecking of naphtha and distillate hydrotreaters, New truck loading terminal and FCC reactor replacement and modernised
• 2005 - The refinery started to use piped natural gas from offshore field
• 2006 - ORL sold the refinery to PAZ
• 2012 - PAZ signs natural gas agreement with Tamar

+++ Relevant Links

1. Oil Refinery - Ashdod ppt
2. Tamar Signs Contract with Paz for approximately $700 million
3. Tamar Signed an Agreement with Paz Ashdod Refinery