Izmit Refinery

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Summary Information

  • Ownership: Tupras
  • Website: http://www.tupras.com.tr/
  • Location: İzmit, Turkey
  • Capacity: 11.0 million tons/annum & 220,000 bbl/day
  • Nelson Complexity: 7.78
  • Refining Depth:

Brief Description

  • A large high complexity refinery that processes a wide range of medium and sour crudes, producing Euro V products
  • The refinery has three crude oil trains

Refining Units

  • Atmospheric Distillation
  • Vacuum Distillation Unit
  • Hydrocracker
  • Fluidised Catalytic Cracker
  • CCR Reformer
  • Diesel Desulphurisation
  • Kerosene Desulphurisation
  • Merox
  • Asphalt Unit
  • Sulphur Recovery Unit


Terminal Capacity

  • Crude Oil:
  • Refined Products:

Crude Supply

  • Iranian, Iraqi, Russia & Saudi Crudes

Products Produced

  • LPG, naphtha, gasoline, jet fuel, kerosene, diesel, heating oil, fuel oil and asphalt

Projects

Other Information

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History

  • 1961 - The Izmit Refinery started production with a 1 million ton/year capacity of crude oil processing
  • 1982 - Design capacity reached 11.5 million tons/year
  • 1996 - 23,000 bpd Hydrocracker commissioned
  • 2007 - A CCR Reformer Unit and Diesel Desulfurization Unit (MQD) were put into operation
  • 2011 - Construction of the upgrading project launched
  • 2015 - The upgrade project was completed

Links

  1. Tupras Refineries
  2. Refinery Webpage
  3. [[[Saipem Hydrocracking Units]]]
  4. [[[Saipem Sulphur Block Units]]]
  5. The Izmit Refinery New CCR Reformer Unit is one of the projects which has been implemented to achieve production conforming to EU environmental standards had been successfully put into operation