Amuay Refinery

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Related Pages

Refineries in Venezuela

• Cabruta Refinery Project
• Puerto La Cruz Refinery Expansion Project
• Santa Ines Refinery Project
• Amuay Refinery
• Puerto La Cruz Refinery

PDVSA Refineries

• Cabruta Refinery Project
• Puerto La Cruz Refinery Expansion Project
• Jieyang Nanhai Refinery Project
• St Croix Refinery
• Santa Ines Refinery Project

Summary Information

• Ownership: PDVSA
• Website: http://www.pdvsa.com/
• Location: Paraguaná Peninsula in the far northwest of Venezuela
• Capacity: 32 million tons/annum & 635,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Refining Depth:

Brief Description

• A very large and complex refinery, Amuay is part of the Paraguana Refinery Complex

Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation
• Fluid catalytic cracking unit - 104,000 bpd
• Flexicoker - 62,000 bpd
• Alkylation Unit,
• Hydrodesulfuration

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• Crude is supplied via the Ule Amuay Pipeline

Products Produced

• -

Ongoing Projects

• -

Other Information

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History

• 1950 - The Creole Petroleum Corporation opened in the state of Falcon, Amuay refinery with an initial capacity of processing 60,000 b / d.
• 1997 - The refinery was merged with its neighbours

Relevant Links

• Crude Conversion Unit At PDVSA's Amuay Refinery Down For 2 Weeks
• Amuay Flexicoquer started after successful maintenance

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