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Summary Information
- Ownership: Cepsa
- Website: http://www.cepsa.com/
- Wiki Page La Rabida Huelva Refinery
- Location: Palos de la Frontera (Huelva).
- Capacity: 4.5 million tons/annum & 90,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Project Stage: Completed
- Expected Completion: 2010
- Budget:
The Project
- Project Type: Expansion and Upgrade
- Project Summary:
- Main Contractors
- Foster Wheeler:
- Detailed engineering of new crude, vacuum and gas recovery units
- Front-end engineering design (FEED) and early procurement services for new crude, vacuum and gas concentration units
- Design, material supply, construction, and erection of a new crude heater, a new vacuum heater and a combustion air preheater system
- Intecsa: Complete utilities and offsite
- UOP: Licences including two Merox™ process units, a Unionfining™ process unit and a Unicracking™ (hydrocracking) process unit
- Technip: - Hydrogen Unit
- Foster Wheeler:
Refining Units
- Crude Distillation - 90,000 bbl/day
- Vacuum Distillation - 30,500 bbl/day
- Gas recovery unit
- Two Merox™ process units,
- A Unionfining™ process unit (Distillate Desulphurisation)
- A Unicracking™ process unit (Hydrocracker)
- Hydrogen Unit - Technip
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
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Products Produced
- In particular production of diesel and jet fuel will be increased.
History
- 2006 - UOP awarded licences for 8 units
- 2007 - Foster Wheeler awarded detailed engineering contract
- 2007 - Technip awarded licence for hydrogen unit
Other Information
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Relevant Links
- Refinery Webpage
- La Rabida Refinery Operations
- Refinery Flowchart
- UOP To Supply Technology For Eight Process Units For Expansion Of CEPSA’s La Rábida Refinery In Spain
- Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract by CEPSA for Fired Heaters in Spanish Refinery
- Foster Wheeler Awarded FEED Contract by Cepsa for New Refinery Units in Spain
- Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract by CEPSA for New Refinery Units in Spain
- Technip awarded contract for hydrogen plant in Spain
- Offsites & Utilities - Refinery Expansion
- Hydrogen Plant Commissioning & Startups