Corinth Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Motor Oil
- Website: http://www.moh.gr/
- Location: Greece
- Capacity: 9.0 million MT per annum, 180,000 bpd
- Nelson Complexity: 12.0
- Refining Depth:
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Hydrocracker - 37,000 bpd
- Gasoil desulphurisation unit - 32,000 bpd
- Sulphur Recovery
- FCC Complex,
- Lubes Production,
- Visbreaker
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
- Total: 2.3 million cubic meters
Crude Supply
- The refinery processes medium heavy sour crude oil, including Basrah, Kirkut and Urals
Products Produced
- LPG, Naphtha, Kerosene, Diesel and Fuel Oil, Lubes.
Projects
- A new naphtha complex is being addeded that will have a capacity of 22,000 barrels per day
- It will consist of three new process units: a naphtha hydrotreater unit, a platforming unit and an isomerization unit.
- The refinery added a new 60,000 barrel per day (bpd) Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) in 2010
- For Details see Corinth Refinery Expansion Project
Other Information
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History
- 1975 - Entrance to fuel production with the addition of the Atmospheric Distillation Unit.
- 1978 - Construction of the Catalytic Reforming Unit
- 1980 - Installation of the Catalytic Cracking Unit
- 1984 - Construction of an Electric Power Production Unit that uses gaseous fuel as raw material. Right to sell energy to the domestic market.
- 1986 - MTBE plant commissioned
- 2000 - Completion of investment projects aiming at the production of products in harmonization to European Union specifications
- 2005 - Hydrocracker Complex Completed
- 2010 - Expansion completed
- 2019 - Naphtha treatment project launched
