Schwedt Refinery

Summary Information

• Ownership: PCK Raffinerie GmbH
• Website: http://www.pck.de/
• Location: Schwedt/Oder
• Capacity: 12 million tons/annum & 240,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity: 9.2

Refining Units

• crude-oil distillation units 10.800kt/a
• vacuum distillation units 5.500 kt/a
• catalytic conversion plant (FCC) 2.850 kt/a
• thermal conversion plant (visbreaker, HSC) 2.600 kt/a
• catalytic reformer plants 1.530 kt/a
• alkylation 330 kt/a
• isomerisation 575 kt/a
• ETBE 96 kt/a
• desulphurisation plants
  • for petrol fuels 2.200 kt/a
  • for petroleum and middle distillates 5.300 kt/a
  • for vacuum distillates 3.300 kt/a
• production of bitumen 420 kt/a
• production of sulphur 160 kt/a
• aromatics production 230 kt/a
• production of terephtalic acid 83 kt/a
• power plant steam generation 1.550 t/h
• generation of electricity 300 MW

Brief Description

• The refinery is a large complex refinery

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• PCK mainly processes crude oil from Russia supplied through the Druzhba Pipeline
• It can also recieve crude via the Rostock-Schwedt Crude Oil Pipeline

Products Produced

• Gasoline, Diesel fuel, light heating oil, Liquid gas, Bitumen, Jet fuel, Sulphur

Ongoing Projects

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Other Information

• The refinery is jointly owned by Shell, BP, Rosneft, Agip
• Also known as AET Refinery

History

• 30th Dezember 1958 Registration of a company as a petroleum processing plant in Schwedt (EVW)
• 11th November 1960 November Foundation stone laid
• 18th Dezember 1963 Commissioning of the crude oil pipeline
• 1st April 1964 - First stage in the processing of crude oil (2 million t / a)
• 1966 - 1969 Expansion of crude oil processing including two more crude oil distillation, refining facilities for gas, gasoline and diesel fuel systems for gasoline production and sulfur recovery
• 1967 - The oil pipeline Schwedt - Leuna (340 km) and the fuel line Schwedt - Seefeld (78 km) is put into operation.
• 1968 - Beginning of the supply West Berlin with PCK-fuels
• 30th December 1970 - Establishing petrochemical Kombinat Schwedt
• 1972 - Terephthalic acid plant commissioning
• 1981/1982 - Start-gap and Aromatenkomplex
• May 1984 - Commissioning visbreaker plant
• December 1988 - Commissioning of the world's first and only HSC (High Soaker Cracking conversion) plant
• April / May 1990 - Transformation of the operations of state-owned conglomerate in PCK corporations (resolution of the conglomerate)
• 30th May 1990 - Acquisition of PCK by the Trust
• July 1991 - Privatization of the PCK refinery by the shareholders Veba Oel AG, DEA AG and AET Petroleum Refinery social participation mbH
• 1991 - 1995 - Transformation and modernization by the shareholders to one of the most modern and efficient refineries in Europe
• 1994 - PCK refinery participates for the first time in international comparison "Solomon Benchmarking"
• 1996 - Renaming of the petrochemical and fuels AG PCK refinery GmbH
• 1996 - PCK refinery in an international comparison "Solomon", the refinery with the lowest processing costs in Western Europe
• Juni 1998 - Commissioning the new industrial power station
• 1998 - 2002 - Implementation of the Auto / Oil program for the production of sulfur fuels
• 1998 - Modernization of Rostock pipeline and the tank farm Rostock, increasing the pipeline capacity to 6.8 million tons of crude oil per year and installation of an environmental monitoring system
• 2002 - Commissioning of the hydrogen-generating facility (H2B)
• 2004 -Establishing the IP Industrial Park Schwedt GmbH & Co. KG as an independent company
• 2004 - Transformation to ETBE plant for the chemical integration of bio-ethanol
• 2006 - Commissioning of the light gasoline unit for chemical incorporation of bioethanol in gasoline
• 2007 - Commissioning propylene splitter
• 2010 - Rosneft acquired PDVSA's stake
• 2014 - Desulphurization plant revamp completed
• 2014 - Rosneft acquired Total's stake

=== Links

1. Refinery Webpage
2. Uhde to build turnkey plant for PCK refinery in Schwedt, Germany
3. [[[Poerner Refinery References]]]
4. [[[Uhde Downstream Oil And Gas Projects]]]
5. Rosneft to Acquire 50% of Ruhr Oel GmbH
6. Rosneft Acquires 16.67% Share in PCK Raffinerie GmbH
7. Total and Rosneft Signed a Sale and Purchase Agreement with Regard to the 16.67% Share in PCK Raffinerie GmbH
8. Rosneft and BP Sign Production, Exploration and Refining Agreements