Petrotel Lukoil Ploiesti Refinery

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Summary Information

• Ownership: Lukoil
• Website: http://www.lukoil.com/
  • List of Lukoil Refineries
• Location: Romania
• Capacity: 2.4 million tons/annum & 58,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity: 10
• Refining Depth: 97.6

Brief Description

• A small but highly complex refinery with a very high white product yield

Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation
• Vacuum Distillation - 22,000
• Fluidised Catalytic Cracker - 19,000
• FCC Gasoline desulphurisation
• Catalytic Reformer -10,000
• Coker - 11,000
• Isomerisation Unit - 4,000

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

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Products Produced

• Motor gasoline, Diesel fuel, Fuel oil, Lubricants, Coke

Ongoing Projects

• Between 2001 and 2004 a number of units added and others were rebuilt
• See Petrotel Lukoil Ploiesti Refinery Upgrade Project for details

Other Information

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History

• 1998 - Lukoil acquired majority share of the refinery
• 2001 - The refinery was closed for refurbishment
• 2004 - The refinery reopened following a major investment programme
• 2005 - IFC supports the modernisation project
• 2007 - A new power plant and centralised control room were commissioned
• 2009 - The Petrotel-LUKOIL Refinery (Romania) completed upgrading of units for hydrotreatment of diesel fuel, catalytic cracking, hydrotreatment of gasoline produced by catalytic cracking, and production of MTBE and TAME, as well as a vacuum unit for the Atmospheric Distillation Block-1.

Relevant Links

1. Analyst Handbook
2. Annual Report 2008
3. Refinery Webpage Romanian
4. Petrotel-Lukoil Romania Refinery Selects ExxonMobil's SCANfining Low Sulfur Gasoline Technology
5. LUKOIL Puts Its Modernized Romanian Oil Refinery Into Operation
6. IFC Supports Modernization of Refinery in Romania
7. LUKOIL Commissions New Facilities At Romanian Refinery

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