Abreu E Lima Pernambuco Refinery Project
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Summary Information
- Also known as Refinería del Nordeste RNEST
- Ownership: Petrobras
- Website: http://www.petrobras.com.br/
- Wiki Page: Abreu E Lima Pernambuco Refinery
- Location: Recife, Brazil
- Capacity: 11.5 million tons/annum & 230,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity: 9.6
- Project Stage: Under Construction
- Expected Completion: Commissioning is expected in 2014
- Budget: $12 Billion
The Project
- Project Type: Greenfield Refinery
- Project Summary:
- Main Contractors
- Halder Topsoe will provide hydrogen, hydrotreater and SNOX™ units
- Larsen & Toubro: manufacture and supply of ten Hydrotreating Reactors and twelve Coke Drums
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Crude Distillation Unit
- Vacuum Distillation Unit
- Delayed Coker
- Hydrogen Units - 2*125,000 Nm3/h
- Diesel Hydrotreaters - 2*83,000 BPSD
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- 50% of the crude will be Marlim Crude Oil from Brazil and 50% from Carabobo Crude Oil from Venezuela
- Crude will be 16 API
Products Produced
- Some 65% of the processed volume will be diesel fuel, the oil derivative that is used the most in Brazil. Cooking gas (LPG), petrochemical naphtha, and coke – solid fuel used in the steel, cement, thermal, and aluminum industries -, will also be produced
- Products produced will be Euro V compliant
History
- 2005 - Petrobras executive board approve the project
- 2009 - Construction contracts signed
- 2011 - Petrobras received a favorable opinion from BNDES, which considered acceptable the bank guaranties offered by PDVSA to partially replace the guaranty provided by Petrobras
- 2011 - PDVSA received a $1.5 billion credit line from the China Development Bank
- 2013 - PDVSA dropped out of the project, which is now owned by Petrobras
- 2014 - Commissioning started for the first train
Other Information
- The initial budget was $4.05 billion
Relevant Links
- Venezuela's PDVSA has $400 mln for Brazil refinery
- Petrobras and PDVSA sign an equity partnership agreement at refinery
- Abreu e Lima Refinery, A Refinery in Pernambuco
- Topsoe and Petrobras, Brazil sign contract for new refinery
- L&T bags largest Brazilian equipment order
- Information about partnership at Abreu e Lima Refinery
- PDVSA gets $1.5 billion China loan for refinery
- Executive Board Approve Refinery in the Northeast with PDVSA
- Merger of RNEST
- Abreu e Lima Refinery initiates Atmospheric Distillation Unit start-up procedure
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