La Teja Montevideo Refinery
Summary Information
- Ownership: ANCAP
- Website: http://www.ancap.com.uy/
- Location: Montevideo, Uruguay
- Capacity: 2.5 million tons/annum & 50,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- A small refinery of medium complexity, having an FCC & Visbreaker, it is the only refinery in Uruguay
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Vacuum Distillation
- Fluidised Catalytic Cracker - 13,500 bpd
- Visbreaker
- Catalytic Reformer - 12,000 bpd
- Isomerisation Unit - 6,000 bpd
- Gasoline Hydrotreater - 18,000 bpd
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- Light crude oil
Products Produced
- LPG, Gasoline, Gasoil, Jet Fuel, Fuel Oil, Asphalt
Ongoing Projects
- For Details see La Teja Montevideo Refinery Project
- ANCAP and PDVSA have a project to double the refinery's capacity to 100,000 bpd
- As a result of the expansion plan, it would be able to process heavy and extra-heavy crude from the Orinoco Oil Belt
Other Information
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History
- 1934 - Refinery operations begin
- 1950 - Refinery expanded
- 1959 - Refinery expanded and upgraded
- 2003 - Gasoline Hydrotreater, Reformer & Isomerisation units added, Crude and FCC units revamped with Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Start-up provided by Techint
- 2005 - Low sulphur fuels complex is commissioned
Relevant Links
- Venezuela evaluates Uruguay’s La Teja Refinery expansion
- LA TEJA REFINERY Under Refinery Projects
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