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

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
  • Shell gasification process put in operation in 1971
  • The Hydrocracker unit has been operating since 1988
  • In 2007, the capacity of the Hydrocracker was increased from 130 to 160 tons per day

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