Campana Refinery Expansion Project
Contents
Summary Information
- Ownership: Axion Energy / Pan American Energy
- Website:
- Wiki Page: Axion Campana Refinery
- Location:
- Capacity:
- Before: 4.5 million tons/annum & 90,000 bbl/day
- After: 6.0 million tons/annum & 120,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Project Stage: Under construction
- Expected Completion: 2022
- Budget: $900 million
The Project
- Project Type: Expansion and upgrade
- Project Summary:
- The project, aims to expand the refinery’s crude processing capacity and to increase refining depth
- It will produce ultra-low sulfur diesel and gasoline (diesel + 1,200,000 m3/year and gasoline + 650,000 m3/year)
- Main Contractors:
- Hytech: Basic and Detailed Engineering for revamp of Crude Unit and Reformer
- Licences:
Refining Units
- Crude unit - revamp
- Reformer - revamp
- Naphtha and Diesel hydrotreaters
- Delayed coker
- Sulfur recovery unit
- Sour water stripper
- Sour gas scrubbers
- Amine regeneration system
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- The additional crude required by the refinery as a result of the expansion will be supplied by pipeline, requiring an expansion of the main pipeline
Products Produced
- The refinery will produce much greater quantities of ULSD and Gasoline
History
- 2016 - IFC awarded the first loan
- 2017 - Hytec awarded basic engineering contract
- 2019 - IFC awarded the second loan
Other Information
- IFC has made two loans for the project
- US$135 million of a US$500 million package in 2019
- US$78 million of a US$378 million package in 2016
Links
- Hytech Downstream References
- Axion Energy awards Hytech a Basic and Detailed Engineering contract to develop the revamp of the Campana Refinery Powerformer and Atmospheric Distillation
- IFC project summary
- IFC helps Argentina meet energy needs with $378 million in long term loans to Axion Energy
- IFC helps Argentina meet energy needs with $500 million loan to Pan American Energy