Gdansk Refinery

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Summary Information

  • Ownership: Grupa Lotos
  • Website: Grupa Lotos
  • Location: Gdansk, Poland
  • Capacity: 6.0 million tons/annum & bbl/day
  • Nelson Complexity: 10.0

Refining Units

  • CDU
  • VDU
  • HDS (ABB Lummus)

Terminal Capacity

  • Crude Oil:
  • Refined Products:

Crude Supply

  • Predominantly Russian REBCO oil blend
  • The company has a strategy of processing more of its own crude as production increases

Products Produced

  • Gasoline, diesel (ultra low-sulfur diesel [ULSD]), light heating oil, jet fuel, bunker oils, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), heavy fuel oil (HFO), bitumens, and base oils.

Ongoing Projects

  • For details see Gdansk Refinery Project
  • The construction of the new oil distillation system with the rated throughput of 4.5 million tonnes of oil per year
  • The project includes CDU, VDU, Hydrocracking, hydrogen, Amine & Sulphur, HDS and Residuum Upgrading units.
  • On 10 September 2008, Grupa LOTOS signed a contract for the construction of the Heavy Vacuum Residue Processing (ROSE) unit with Technip Italy S.p.A., including the design, supplies of materials and equipment as well as technical consulting.

Other Information

  • Solomon Index:
    • The refinery of Grupa LOTOS S.A. ranked second out of 106 benchmarked refineries in terms of utilizing the production installations.
    • The refinery of Grupa LOTOS S.A. ranked 6th out of 106 European refineries in terms of its power efficiency
    • The Polish government is looking to sell its share in the company in 2011

History

  • 1976 - Refinery commissioned by Snamprogetti
  • 2007 - All major contracts for system the expansion were signed

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