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

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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

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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 - TEC was awarded a contract to increase capacity of the FCC unitthe Alkylation unit

Relevant Links

• PDVSA Restarts FCC Unit At Its El Palito Refinery In Venezuela
• El Palito, Entrepreneur
• Preventive stop takes place in El Palito Refinery
• Financial resources secured to expand the capacity of El Palito and Puerto La Cruz refineries
• TEC was awarded a contract for refinery capacity increase for Venezuela

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