Cartagena Reficar Refinery Project

Summary Information Ownership: Ecopetrol / Glencore Website: http://www.ecopetrol.com.co/ Wiki Page: Cartagena Reficar Refinery Location: Mamonal of the Cartagena Bay, 30 minutes to the west of the Cartagena city on the northern coast of Colombia. Capacity: Before: 4.0 million tons/annum & 78,000 bbl/day After: 8.25 million tons/annum & 165,000 bbl/day Nelson Complexity: Project Stage: Planning Expected Completion: 2013 Budget: $1.4 Billion (This is however unrealistic) The Project Project Type: Greenfield Refinery, Plus revamping of existing plant Project Summary: The construction of a new refinery, with processing capacity of 165,000 barrels per day, is adjacent to REFICAR's refinery in Cartagena The project includes revamping the existing 78,000 barrel per day refinery. The overall project will relieve regional refining constraints and will enable REFICAR to produce clean, ultra-low sulfur gasoline and diesel from heavy crude. Main Contractors: CB&I: EPC, engineering, procurement services and construction Foster Wheeler: Project Management Consultant Kentz: Electrical and instrumentation installation works Licences: Merichem: LPG, Kerosene and Naphtha treatment Refining Units Crude and Vacuum Distillation Fluid Catalytic Cracker Naphtha Hydrotreater Diesel Hydrotreater Hydrocracker Hydrogen Plant Sulfur Plant Delayed Coker HF Alkylation, C4 Isomerization Power Generation Offsites and Utilities Terminal Capacity Crude Oil: Refined Products: Crude Supply Heavy & sour domestic crude Products Produced - History 2003 - Technip awarded basic design 2009 - CBI awarded EPC contract 2009 - Foster Wheeler awarded Project Management Consultant contract 2010 - Merichem technologies chosen Other Information The Export-Import Bank of the United States granted a $2.84 billion direct loan/loan guarantee package for the project

Links

1. Refinery Webpage
2. The Cartagena Refinery Development Master Plan
3. Technip-Coflexip wins a basic design/PMC contract for a refinery project in Colombia
4. Foster Wheeler Serves as REFICAR's PMC for REFICAR Refinery Project in Colombia
5. CB&I Awarded REFICAR Refinery Project in Colombia
6. REFICAR Selects Merichem technologies for treatment of LPG, Jet Fuel, and Spent Caustic
7. Ex-Im Bank Gives Preliminary OK For $2.8 Billion Export Financing For Colombian Refinery Project
8. Environmental and Social Due Diligence: Reficar Cartagena Refinery Expansion, Colombia
9. Kentz consortium awarded US$58m contract in Colombia by CB&I