Normandy Refinery
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Summary Information
- This refinery is also known as the Normandy Refinery
- Ownership: Total
- Website: http://www.total.com/
- List of Total Refineries
- Location: Normandy, France
- Capacity: 12 million tons/annum & 240,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
Refining Units
- Crude distillation unit - 320,000
- Vacuum distillation unit - 82,000
- catalytic reforming unit - 50,000
- Hydrocracker - 52,000
- Fluid catalytic cracker - 52,000
- gas oil desulphurisation unit - 126,000
- visbreaker unit - 26,000
- isomerisation unit - 16,000
- Sulfur recovery unit
- Tail Gas Treatment Unit
- IGCC
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- -
Products Produced
- -
Ongoing Projects
- The hydrocracker is being debottlenecked which will increase hydro-conversion capacity to 10,000 tons per day from the current 8,000 tons
- For details see Gonfreville Refinery Upgrade Project
Other Information
- Total built a distillate hydrocracker (DHC) at the refinery, in order to increase diesel production. For the same amount of throughput, the DHC increases the output of "clean" diesel fuel by 8%, for a total investment of about €550 million.
History
- 1998 - IGCC project launched
- 1999 - Isomerisation Unit commissioned
- 2007 - The Hydrocracker was commissioned
- 2009 - Capacity was reduced by 80,000 bbls/day, by the decommissioning of a distillation column
Relevant Links
- Normandy Hydrocracker Project
- FACTBOX-Oil refineries shut due to weak economy 2009-10
- FACTBOX-Total's European refineries
- Axens’ Hydrocracking Technology Selected by Total’s Normandy Refinery
- Saipem Isomerisation Units
- Saipem Sulphur Block Units
- Technip Refining References
- Launching Of IGCC Project at the Normandy Refinery
- Technip awarded contract by Total for the hydrocracker of the Normandy refinery
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