Schwechat Refinery

Summary Information Ownership: OMV Website: http://www.omv.com/ List of OMV Refineries Location: Schwechat, near Vienna Capacity: 9.6 Million tons/annum & 192.000 bbl/day Nelson Complexity: 6.2 Refining Units Atmospheric Distillation Vacuum Distillation Fluidised Catalytic Cracker Hydrocracker Isomerisation Unit Diesel Desulphurisation -27,000 bpd A Deep thermal gasoil unit Terminal Capacity Crude Oil: Refined Products: Crude Supply Approx. one million tons of crude oil comes from these domestic subsidies, the rest from abroad, mainly Russia, Kazakhstan, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. The Vienna-Adriatic Pipeline (AWP), a branch of the Trans-Alpine Oil Pipeline (TAL) is pumping the crude oil imported from Trieste directly to the transfer station Schwechat. Products Produced 95 Octane gasoline, 98 Octane gasoline, Diesel, Extra light fuel oil, Low sulfur fuel oil extra light, Light fuel oil, Heavy fuel oil, Jet A-1, Hydrogen, Ethylene, Propylene, Butadiene, Propane, Butane, Bitumen, Sulfur Ongoing Projects - Other Information The refinery replaced an earlier one that was built in 1938 History 1960 - Schwechat Refinery is commissioned 1963 - FCC Commissioned 1972 - Investments in desulfurisation plants (HDS2) and vacuum as well as atmospheric distillation plants (FP2; RD4) 1979 - Construction of a Mild Hydrocrackers 1983 - MTBE plant commissioned 2008 - The hydrodesulphurization plant HDS1, was expanded and revamped 2009 - A deep thermal gasoil unit (TGU) constructed by Uhde was commissioned 2014 - modernization of the crude oil distillation plant 4 completed Relevant Links MODERN DESIGN AND TROUBLESHOOTING TOOLS CREATE A SUCCESSFUL FCC REVAMP OMV Schwechat Refinery celebrates the 50th anniversary of its track record TGU commissioning at Schwechat, Austria Poerner Refinery References Saipem Oxygenates For Fuel Use Revamp of HDS1 plant in Schwechat successfuly completed