Bilbao Refinery

Summary Information

• Ownership: Petronor (Repsol)
• Website: http://www.repsol.com/
  • List of Repsol Refineries
• Location: Bilbao
• Capacity: 12 million tons/annum & 240,000bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:

+++ Refining Units

• CDU 1: 100,000 bbls/day
• CDU 2: 140,000 bbls/day
• FCC naphtha desulphurisation unit
• Desulphurisation Unit
  • Naphtha
  • Diesel
• Visbreaker
• Alkylation Unit
• Platformer
• Hydrogen Unit

+++ Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

+++ Crude Supply

• -

+++ Products Produced

• Liquefied petroleum gas (butane and propane), Naphtha, Kerosene, Gasoline, Diesel, Fuel oils, Asphalt

+++ Ongoing Projects

• A coker is currently being constructed by Foster Wheeler. Details can be found at [[[Bilbao Refinery Project]]]

+++ Other Information

• One of the CDUs was temporarily shut down in mid 2009. It was restarted a year later.

+++ History

• 1968 - Petroleos del Norte (Petronor) was incorporated
• 1970 - The refinery was commissioned
• 2009 - The refinery was partially mothballed
• 2010 - The 2nd crude unit was brought back onstream

Links

1. Foster Wheeler Delayed Cokers
2. Repsol Refining Page
3. Petronor Spanish
4. Petronor IGCC, Foster Wheeler
5. Repsol Delays Start of Two Units at Spain’s Bilbao Oil Refinery
6. STEAM REFORMING UNIT (H4) FOR REPSOL-PETRONOR (SOMORROSTRO, VIZCAYA)
7. SULPHUR REDUCING UNITS AT THE REPSOL PETRONOR REFINERY (SOMORROSTRO, VIZCAYA)