Abreu e Lima Refinery RNEST

Summary Information

• Ownership: Petrobras
• Website: http://www.petrobras.com.br/en/
• List of Petrobras Refineries
• Location: Recife, Brazil
• Capacity: 5.75 million tons/annum & 115,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity: 9.6
• Refining depth

Brief Description

• Brazil's newest refinery, it is medium sized, high complexity with a very high diesel yield

Refining Units

• Atmospheric Crude Distillation Unit
• Vacuum Distillation Unit
• Delayed Coker
• Hydrogen Units - 2*125,000 Nm3/h
• Diesel Hydrotreaters - 2*83,000 BPSD

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• 50% of the crude will be Marlim Crude Oil from Brazil and 50% from Carabobo Crude Oil from Venezuela
• Crude will be 16 API

Products Produced

• Some 65% of the processed volume will be diesel fuel, the oil derivative that is used the most in Brazil. Cooking gas (LPG), petrochemical naphtha, and coke – solid fuel used in the steel, cement, thermal, and aluminum industries -, will also be produced
• Products produced will be Euro V compliant

Projects

• The refinery came in stream in 2014
• See Abreu e Lima Pernambuco RNEST Refinery Project

Other Information

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History

• 2005 - Petrobras executive board approve the project
• 2009 - Construction contracts signed
• 2014 - Commissioning started for the first train

Links

1. Refnery webpage
2. Abreu e Lima Refinery initiates Atmospheric Distillation Unit start-up procedure
3. Petrobras starts binding phase of refineries