Hamburg Holburn Refinery

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Summary Information

• Ownership: Tamoil
• Website: http://www.tamoil.com/
• Location: Hamburg, Germany
• Capacity: 4.7 million tons/annum & 105,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Refining Depth:

Brief Description

• Hamburg is a cat-cracking refinery with medium conversion, the core units were built in 1972

Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation
• Vacuum Distillation - 1,030
• FCC 1.150
• Catalytic Reformer (Discontinuous) 0.96
• Isomerisation 0.29
• Desulphurisation (Gasoline) 1.84 mn tons
• Desulphurisation (M.Distillate) 3.20 mn tons

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• A pipeline measuring 147 km in length supplies crude oil to the refinery from the North West Oil Management deep water terminal in Wilhelmshaven.
• Much of the crude comes from Libya

Products Produced

• A full range of refined products, i.e. liquefied petroleum gases, petrol, petrochemical grade naphtha, kerosene, diesel, heating and fuel oils are obtained.
• Products meet Euro V specifications

Ongoing Projects

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Other Information

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History

• 1983 - Visbreaker commissioned
• 1987 - Acquired by Tamoil
• 2003 - Clean Fuels modernisation programme completed

Relevant Links

1. Refinery Webpage
2. Modernisation programme completed
3. Saipem Visbreaking Units

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