Minatitlan Refinery Project

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Summary Information

• Ownership: Pemex
• Website: http://www.pemex.com/
  • List of Pemex Refineries
• Wiki Page: Minatitlan Refinery
• Location: Minatitlan, Veracruz, Mexico
• Capacity:
  • Before: 8.45 million tons/annum & 169,000 bbl/day
  • After: 16.0 million tons/annum & 320,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Project Stage: Completed
• Expected Completion: 2011
• Budget: 42 billion pesos

The Project

• Project Type: Upgrade
• Project Summary: Addition of a number of new units to increase capacity and modifications to the existing Hydrodesulfurization of Intermediate Distillates to obtain Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel (ULSD).
• Main Contractors:
  • Tecnicas Reunidas awarded LSTK Contract for Engineering, Procurement and Construction
  • Uhde has been awarded a contract for the Engineering Services
  • INTECSA has the contract to build most of the units
  • Axens North America, Process Licensor,

Refining Units

• Delayed Coker Unit
• Vacuum crude oil distillation unit - 60,000 bpd
• Atmospheric crude oil distillation unit (150.000 BPSD)
• Fluid catalytic craker complex (42.000 BPSD)
• Hydrodesulfuration unit (37.000 BPSD)
• Catalytic hydrogenation - 34.000 BPSD

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• Increasing the proportion of heavy oil processed from 33% to 71% with a new refining train processing 100% Maya Crude Oil

Products Produced

• The project doubles the production of gasoline and reduces sulphur levels to 15 ppm

History

• 2005 - Tecnicas Reunidas awarded LSTK Contract for Engineering, Procurement and Construction
• 2011 - Refinery opened by President Felipe Calderón

Other Information

• The oldest refinery in Latin America

Relevant Links

• Minatitlán Refinery Reconfiguration Packet 4 Electrical, Instrumentation & Control Works, Mexico
• Uhde Wins Pemex Hydrodesulfurization Projects
• Construction Of New Refinery Units
• Speech by President Felipe Calderón at the opening event of the reconfiguration of the refinery "General Lázaro Cárdenas
• Tecnicas Reunidas Projects

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