Alexandria Refinery
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Summary Information

  • Ownership: Alexandria Petroleum Company
  • Website: http://alex-petroleum.com
  • Location: Alexandria, Egypt
  • Capacity: 5.0 million tons/annum & 100,000 bbl/day
  • Nelson Complexity:
  • Refining Depth:

Brief Description

  • A small and simple refinery, but with some capability to produce transportation fuels

Refining Units

  • Atmospheric Distillation
  • vacuum distillation unit,
  • catalytic middle distillate dewaxing unit
  • LPG Recovery Unit
  • Asphalt Unit
  • continuous catalytic reformer
  • isomerisation and hydrotreating units
  • sour water stripper

Terminal Capacity

  • Crude Oil:
  • Refined Products:

Crude Supply

  • -

Products Produced

  • Propane, Liquefied Petroleum Gases , Light Naphtha, Heavy Naphtha, Kerosene, Jet Fuel, White Spirits, Gas Oil, Solvent

Ongoing Projects

  • -

Other Information

  • -

History

  • 1957 - Refinery came on stream
  • 1963 - Capacity increased with commissioning of new distillation column
  • 1968 - Capacity increased with commissioning of new distillation column
  • 1979 - The solvent production complex started in operation
  • 1982 - Capacity increased with commissioning of new distillation column
  • 1982 - The lube oil complex started in operation
  • 1997 - The spent oil re-refining unit started in operation
  • 1997 - The bitumen blending, oxidation and solidification unit started in operation
  • 2000 - continuous catalytic reformer and associated isomerisation and hydrotreating units commissioned

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