Wilhelmshaven Refinery
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Summary Information
- The refinery has been closed and converted into a terminal
- Ownership: HES International
- Website: https://www.hesinternational.eu/
- Location: Lower Saxony, Germany
- Capacity: 13.5 million tons/annum & 270,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Vacuum Distillation - 4.8 Million Tons
- Catalytic Reformer - 1.7 Million Tons
- Isomerisation - 0.4 Million Tons
- Desulphurisation (Gasoline) - 3.9 Million Tons
- Desulphurisation (M.Distillate) - 4.5 Million Tons
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- The crude oil processed is low-sulfur mostly from the North Sea
Products Produced
- Wilhelmshaven mainly produces transportation fuels, fuel oil and intermediate feedstocks
Projects
- For Details see Wilhelmshaven Refinery Upgrade Project
- Presently the facility is a hydroskimming refinery.
- ConocoPhillips announced in March 2008 that it plans to upgrade the refinery so that it can produce higher-value products from a wider variety of crude slates. It will upgrade Wilhelmshaven to a full conversion facility with 223,000 b/d crude capacity
- ConocoPhillips intended to make the facility more complex by adding new coker, hydrocracker, and hydrogen plants.
- The company also plans to add deep conversion and power generation capabilities to the plant.
- These additions would have allowed the plant run a more advantageous crude slate, including Russian Export blends, while increasing overall conversion and reducing operating costs. The upgrade project is expected to increase the refinery's clean products yield to 80% and provide a high yield of ultra low sulfur diesel in the distillate short market.
- The project was cancelled
Other Information
- Hestya Energy a private Dutch company has bought this refinery, but has no immediate plan to reopen it
History
- 1976 - Mobil commissions the refinery
- 1991 - Refinery modernisation project and recommissioning
- 1997 - The refinery saw an increase of capacity from 8.0 to 10.3 million tons of crude oil
- 2004 - Vacuum distillation commissioned
- 2005 - Conocophillips purchased the refinery from Louis Dreyfus Energy Holdings Ltd
- 2010 - Conocophillips announces that the upgrade project has been cancelled
- 2011 - Conocophillips announces that the refinery will close
- 2011 - Hestya Energy announced it has signed an agreement to purchase the oil refinery
Links
- About Wilhelmshaven Refinery, Conocophillips
- ConocoPhillips to Purchase German Refinery
- ConocoPhillips Plans to Invest In Newly Acquired German Refinery
- ConocoPhillips Delays Wilhelmshaven Upgrade Project
- Conoco Reaches Deal to Close Wilhelmshaven Refinery in Germany
- Hestya Energy to Purchase Wilhelmshaven Refinery, Tank Farm and Marine Terminal