Engen Durban Refinery

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Summary Information

  • Ownership: Engen
  • Website: http://www.engen.co.za/
  • Location: Durban, South Africa
  • Capacity: 6.8 million tons/annum & 120,000 bbl/day
  • Nelson Complexity:
  • Refining Depth:

Refining Units

  • Atmospheric Distillation
  • Vacuum Ditillation
  • Fluidised Catalytic Converter
  • Visbreaker
  • Isomerisation Unit
  • Alkylation unit

Terminal Capacity

  • Crude Oil:
  • Refined Products:

Crude Supply

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Products Produced

  • Gasoline, Diesel, Fuel Oil

Projects

  • Petronas is considering options to upgrade and expand the refinery, including adding a hydrocracker
  • multi-products pipeline feeder lines and infrastructure project is currently underway to link the refinery to the Transnet pipeline in order to enhance *Engen's access to key refined product markets in the South African interior.

Other Information

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History

  • 1974 - Capacity expanded by 50,000 bpd and Catalytic Reforming Unit added
  • 1976 - A CDU was converted into a Visbreaker
  • 1981 - Addition of the hydrofluoric acid alkylation unit
  • 1996 - Petronas bought 30% of the refinery from Mobil
  • 1998 - Petronas bought the remaining 70%
  • 2004 - Clean Fuels Project Launched
  • 2006 - Alkylation project launched
  • 2011 - Multi-products pipeline feeder lines and infrastructure project launched

Links

  1. Chiyoda Crude Distillation Units
  2. Chiyoda Catalytic Reforming Units
  3. Chiyoda Naphtha And Middle Distillate Hydrodesulfurization U
  4. Honeywell selected at Engen in Durban
  5. Reduced emissions for oil refinery
  6. Foster Wheeler Awarded EPCm Contract by Engen in South Africa
  7. ConocoPhillips Signs License with Engen Petroleum for Alkylation Technologies