The oil refinery is located in Western Europe. It was recently shut down for economic reasons, after a significant two years maintenance and revamping program in the range of a three digit milion US$.

This program increased reliability, reduced maintenance costs and implemented improvements in key refinery units, which furhter improved yields and processing capability.

The oil refiney has 12 main units that provide operating flexibility and allow secondary processing of all atmospheric cuts in a range of operating modes. Refinery's Solomon complexity index is 7.7.

The single train crude and vacuum distillation units can process a wide variety of crude oils. Sweet and sour crude oils are processed in a block operation primarily dictated by bitumen production. The unit has sufficient metallurgy to process acidic crude oils and other challenging crude oils like CPC.

The crude oils are fractionated into streams which are then further processed into finished products. The high vacuum unit recovers gas oils from the long atmospheric residue and the residue is either further processed in the visbreaker for heavy fuels production or routed to bitumen blending.

The vacuum residue processed in the visbreaker is routed to either heavy fuel oil or used to produce the harder grades of bitumen. The visbreaker allows the Refinery to reduce the production of heavy fuel oil and broaden the types of crude oils that can be used to produce bitumen.

All Naphthas from the atmospheric distillation unit are desulphurised in the 27,000 bpd Naphtha treater. After fractionation, the light virgin Naphthta (LVN) is either blended to finished Gasoline or sold as petrochemical feedstock. The Heavy Naphtha fraction is further processed in the Catalytic Reforming unit (Platformer). The Reformate product is either blended into finished Gasoline or sold as petrochemical feedstock, typically for aromatics production.

A single medium pressure distillate hyrodesulphuriser treats Kerosene, straight-run and cracked Gas Oils (from catalytic and thermal cracking units as well as visbreaker) to produce finished Diesel and Heating Oils.

The Refinery has a unique flexibility in the conversion of gas oils with both a fluid catalytic crackig unit (FCC) as well as thermal cracking unit (integrated with the residue with the residue visbreaker). The FCC processes straight-run and vacuum gas oils to produce LPG, gasoline, distillates and a small amount of heavy fuel oil. In the current configuration, the FCC processes some vacuum residue from sweet crude oils and the revamp in 2010 expanded this capability. The thermal cracker processes primarily vacuum gas oils producing mostly distillates; unconverted material is routed to the visbreaker for further processing.

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