Port Clarence Teeside Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Petroplus
- Website: http://www.petroplusholdings.com
- List of Petroplus Refineries
- Location: Teeside North East England
- Capacity: 5.85 Million tons/annum & 117,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- A small and simple refinery, it has now been closed
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Hydro Desulphurisation Unit
- LPG Recovery Unit
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products: 1.9 million barrels
Crude Supply
- The refinery was originally commissioned to process North African crude
- With the development of North Sea oil, it switched to processing Norwegian Ekofisk Crude Oil.
Products Produced
- Naphtha, Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel & Bio-Diesel, Kerosene & Gas Oil, Fuel Oil
Ongoing Projects
- -
Other Information
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History
- 1966 - Refinery commissioned
- 1981 - The large distillation unit was debottlenecked from 4 million tonnes to 5 million tonnes per year and the small distillation unit was permanently shut down and has been demolished
- 1996- The Dewaxing Unit was completely revamped to convert it to an HDS Unit to allow production of Low Sulphur Diesel. A Sulferfox Sulphur Recovery Unit and a new Sour Water Stripper were also installed.
- 2000 - Petroplus acquired the plant from Phillips Imperial Petroleum Ltd
- 2009 - Petroplus announces the mothballing of the refinery
Relevant Links
- Refinery Webpage
- UKPIA Information
- Institute of Petroleum Information
- Petroplus announces refinery is to be mothballed
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