Burghausen Refinery

Summary Information

• Ownership: OMV
• Website: http://www.omv.com/
• Location: Bavaria, Germany
• Capacity: 3.5 Million tons/annum & 70.000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity: 7.3
• Refining Depth:

Brief Description

• A small refinery with a large coker, making it complex, despite not having a large number of units. It also has integrated petrochemicals.

Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation
• Coking Unit,
• Desulphurisation
• Steam cracker

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• The refinery uses high-quality and low-sulphur crude oil grades
• The crude is supplied via the Trans Alpine Pipeline

Products Produced

• Middle distillates such as kerosene, diesel and heating oil are produced.
• The refinery focuses on petrochemicals - the entire gasoline cut flows into the production of petrochemical raw materials such as ethylene, propylene and butadiene
• Ethylene is supplied to the Ethylen-Pipeline Süd
• Munich airport is supplied with jet fuel by 125 km pipeline

Projects

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Other Information

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History

• 1967 - Burghausen Refinery begins operations
• 1987 - OMV acquired the refinery
• 1992 - Munich airport pipeline opened
• 2000 - Commissioning of a new gasoil hydrotreater of 12000 bpsd with deep de-sulphurisation and de-aromatisation to meet the 2005 European legislation for Diesel
• 2007 - Metathesis plant commissioned
• 2015 - Butadiene plant began operations

Links

1. OMV Refineries
2. Refinery brochure (German)
3. Poerner Refinery References
4. Gasoil HDS/HDA unit
5. Burghausen Refinery celebrates its 50th birthday