Litvinov Refinery

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Summary Information

  • Ownership: Unipetrol
  • Website: http://www.unipetrol.cz/
  • Location:
  • Capacity: 5.5 million tons/annum & 110,000 bbl/day
  • Nelson Complexity: 8.5

Brief Description

  • A small medium complexity refinery

Refining Units

  • CDU *2
  • VDU *2
  • hydrocracking unit - Unocal
  • Izomerization - Penex
  • Naphtha Hydrotreater
  • Diesel Desulphurisation *2
  • Continuous Reformer - IFP
  • Visbreaker - Shell
  • Bitumen Blower
  • A Layout of the Refinery can be found here.

Terminal Capacity

  • Crude Oil:
  • Refined Products:

Crude Supply

Products Produced

  • automotive gasoline and diesel oils,
  • aviation fuels,
  • fuel oils,
  • LPG,
  • bitumen
  • petrochemical feedstock

Ongoing Projects

  • -

Other Information

  • -

History

  • Litvínov refinery was originally constructed as a plant for production of fuels from coal. Tar arising from the process of coal liquefaction was hydrocraced, hydrotreated and processed to produce motor fuels
  • 1971 - Shell gasification process put in operation
  • 1988 - The Hydrocracker unit was commisioned
  • 2004 - Sulfur Recovery Unit/Revamp completed
  • 2005 - Diesel HDS unit commissioned
  • 2007 - The capacity of the Hydrocracker was increased from 130 to 160 tons per day & the Visbreaking Unit was revamped
  • 2011 - Revamp Of MEA Unit completed
  • 2013 - Unipetrol acquired Shell's stake in the refinery

Relevant Links

  1. Prokop Engineering Refinery References
  2. Saipem Vacuum Distillation Units
  3. Refinery - Steam Cracker Interfaces of Litvinov Site
  4. Ceska rafinerska
  5. ABB awarded second EPC contract for Ceská rafinérská
  6. PKN ORLEN has signed an agreement with SOCAR for crude oil deliveries
  7. Acquisition of 16.335% stake in Česká rafinérská from Shell
  8. MOL Group and eni Group agreed on the sale of eni subsidiaries in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania, including 208 service stations

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