Premium I Refinery Project
Contents
Summary Information
- Ownership: Petrobras
- Website: http://www.petrobras.com
- Wiki Page:
- Location: Maranhão, Brazil
- Capacity: 30 million tons/annum & 600,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Project Stage: Basic Engineering (2010)
- Expected Completion: [[[Refinery Projects to be Completed in 2016 | 2016]]]
- Budget:
The Project
- Project Type: Greenfield Refinery
- Project Summary: A two train, large complex refinery, designed for maximum diesel production
- Main Contractors:
* **UOP:** Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contractor * **Foster Wheeler:** Subcontracted for the FEED
- Licences:
* **UOP:** UnicrackingTM hydrocracking process and the UOP UnionfiningTM hydrotreating * **Foster Wheeler:** Selective Yield Delayed Coking (SYDECSM) technology
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation - 2 * 300,000 bpd
- Vacuum Distillation
- Hydrocracker
- Diesel Desulphurisation
- Delayed Coker - FW
- Hydrogen Unit - FW
- Sour water stripper
- Amine regeneration
- Sulfur recovery unit.
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- The refinery will process domestic crude, produced from Brazil's recent offshore discoveries
Products Produced
- The refinery will produce premium automotive fuels with a high proportion of diesel
History
- 2010 - UOP awarded process licences
- 2010 - Foster wheeler awarded FEED contract
- 2013 - Sinopec signed letter of intent to potentially enter the project
Other Information
- Completion has been delayed until 2016
Links
- Petrobras has signed up a contract for the implementation of Premium I and Premium II Refineries
- Honeywell UOP Technology Selected By Petrobras For Two New Refineries To Expand Diesel Production
- Foster Wheeler Wins Basic Design and Feed Contract for Two Grassroots Refineries in Brazil
- Letter of Intent with SINOPEC
- Brazil Petrobras Delays Premium I Refinery Start Til 2016