El Palito Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: PDVSA
- Website: http://www.pdvsa.com/
- List of PDVSA Refineries
- Location: Caribbean coast , Venezuela
- Capacity: 6.5 million tons/annum & 135,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- A medium sized medium complexity refinery with a high gasoline yield
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Vacuum Distillation, 48,000 bpd
- Fluidised Catalytic Cracker, 60,000 bpd
- Vacuum gasoil desulphurisation unit, 28,000 b/d
- Alkylation Unit
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- Domestic crude oils
Products Produced
- LPG, Gasoline, Diesel
Ongoing Projects
- The El Palito refinery is to be expanded to 280,000 barrels a day and upgraded to be able to process crude from the Orinoco heavy crude belt
- See El Palito Refinery Expansion Project for details
Other Information
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History
- 1960 - The El Palito refinery started operations with a crude processing capacity of 55 000 barrels per day
- 2002 - Toyo was awarded a contract to increase capacity of the FCC unit and the Alkylation unit
- 2005 - Project launched to increase gasoline production
- 2005 - Expansion project announced
- 2011 - Fire in FCC unit
Relevant Links
- PDVSA Restarts FCC Unit At Its El Palito Refinery In Venezuela
- El Palito, Entrepreneur
- TEC was awarded a contract for refinery capacity increase for Venezuela
- Preventive stop takes place in El Palito Refinery
- Technip Venezuela References
- El Palito Refinery revamps its gasoline treatment plant
- El Palito Refinery began the expansion of the refining system
- El Palito refinery FCC Back Online after Fire
- Financial resources secured to expand the capacity of El Palito and Puerto La Cruz refineries
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