Fawley Southampton Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Exxon Mobil
- Website: http://www.exxonmobil.com/
- List of Exxon Mobil Refineries
- Location: The west shore of Southampton Water, UK
- Capacity: 15.5 million tons/annum & 310,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Vacuum distillation
- Steam cracker
- Fluid catalytic cracker
- Catalytic reformer
- Residfiner
- Hydro desulphurisation units
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- Crude oil is transported by sea to the refinery's modern marine terminal which handles around 2,000 ship movements and 22 million tonnes of crude oil and other products every year
- Typically, the refinery will process over 20 different crude oils in any one year
Products Produced
- Petrol
- Diesel
- Kerosene & jet fuel
- Fuel oil
- LPG
- Lubricating base oils
- Petrochemical feedstocks
- Bitumen
- Other products
Ongoing Projects
- -
Other Information
- Esso’s fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) regenerator at its Fawley refinery in the UK is one of the largest in the world.
History
- 1921 - The refinery was commissioned
- 1951 - Esso brought on stream a new refinery with a capacity of 5.5 million tonnes per year.
- 2003 - Ultra low sulphur gasoline project launched
Relevant Links
- Exxon Refineries Throughput, Capacity and Utilisation
- Foster Wheeler Awarded Five-Year Agreement and Front-End Loading Phase of Sulfur-Free Mogas Project By ExxonMobil
- Information from UKPIA
- Complex FCC head & cyclone challenge
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