Cartagena Reficar Refinery
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Summary Information

  • Ownership: Ecopetrol / Glencore
  • Website: http://www.ecopetrol.com.co/
  • Location: Mamonal of the Cartagena Bay, 30 minutes to the west of the Cartagena city on the northern coast of Colombia.
  • Capacity: 4.0 million tons/annum & 78,000 bbl/day
  • Nelson Complexity:
  • Refining Depth:

Brief Description

  • The refinery is a small but medium complex refinery, capable of processing heavy crudes, and having mild cracking ability.

Refining Units

  • Atmospheric Distillation
  • Vacuum Distillation
  • Visbreaking Units - 25,000 - Axens
  • Fluid Catalytic Cracker - 29,000 - Exxon
  • Light Ends Unit - 35,000 - UOP
  • Polymerization Plants - 7,000 - UOP
  • Amine Plants
  • Sulfur Plants

Terminal Capacity

  • Crude Oil & Refined Products: 134 tanks, with total storage capacity of more than 6.4 MM bbls

Crude Supply

  • The refinery is capable of processing local crude with an average API of 27°

Products Produced

  • LPG, Gasoline, Diesel, Fuel Oil

Ongoing Projects

  • For details see Cartagena Reficar Refinery Project
  • The construction of a new refinery, with processing capacity of 165,000 barrels per day, is adjacent to REFICAR's refinery in Cartagena
  • The project includes revamping the existing 78,000 barrel per day refinery.
  • The overall project will relieve regional refining constraints and will enable REFICAR to produce clean, ultra-low sulfur gasoline and diesel from heavy crude.

Other Information

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History

  • 1956 - The Refinery was built with an initial capacity of 26.3 kbpd
  • 1957 - FCC unit commissioned
  • 1964 - A substantial investment was made to increase its capacity to 47 kbpd
  • 1974 - Ecopetrol acquired the refinery from Intercol
  • 1983 - Its capacity was increased to 70 kbpd
  • 2008 - KBR awarded FCC revamp project

Relevant Links

  1. Refinery Webpage
  2. The Cartagena Refinery Development Master Plan
  3. Otepi Refinery References
  4. CB&I Awarded REFICAR Refinery Project in Colombia
  5. KBR Awarded Contracts by Refineria de Cartagena (Reficar) S.A. to Upgrade Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit
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