Buenos Aires Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Raizen
- Website: https://www.raizen.com.ar/
- Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Capacity: 5.0 million tons/annum & 100,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- A medium sized, medium complexity refinery
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) unit
- Hydrotreating
- Catalytic reforming
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil: 175,000 m3
- Refined Products: 600,000 m3
Crude Supply
- Virtually all crude processed at the refinery are domestic, extracted from deposits in Santa Cruz, Chubut, Tierra del Fuego and Black River.
- The oils are transported from their fields to the refinery mostly by sea, but also received by pipeline
Products Produced
- Liquefied Petroleum Gas, Gasolines Diesel, Jet-A1, Solvents and white spirit, Gas oil, Bunker fuel oil, for ships, Basic lubricating oils, asphalt
Projects
- The FCC is undergoing a modernisation
Other Information
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History
- 1931 - Refinery commissioned
- 2008 - Expansion of diesel hydrotreating
- 2018 - Raizen acquires the refinery