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

Revision as of 11:12, 12 November 2021

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

Links

  1. Refinery Webpage (Spanish)
  2. Shell completes sale of its Downstream business in Argentina to Raízen
  3. KBR Awarded FCC Technology Contract by Raízen Argentina