Preemraff Lysekil Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Preem
- Website: http://www.preem.se/
- Location: Brofjorden, Lysekil about 120 km north of the town of Gothenburg on the west coast of Sweden
- Capacity: 11.4 million tonnes/annum, 220,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- A large medium complexity refinery
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Hydrocracker
- Isomerization unit
- Visbreaker
- Desulphurisation
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- The storage include four crude oil caverns each having a capacity of 200.000 m3
- 140.000 m3 (1 million barrels)
- Refined Products:
- Four product caverns for storage of diesel- and fuel oils and having a respective capacity of 44.000, 85.000, 73.000 and 85.000 m3
- 750.000 m3 (4.6 million barrels)
Crude Supply
- Mostly crude form the North Sea
Products Produced
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Ongoing Projects
- A new Vacuum distillation unit is to be commisioned in 2019
- Foster Wheeler AG has been awarded a contract by Preem AB (Publ) Preemraff Lysekil (Preem) to perform the basic engineering design (BED) and front-end engineering design (FEED) for Preem's Energy Savings Program 2013
- Honeywell is replacing the control systems
Other Information
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History
- 1975 - Refinery is commissioned
- 1982 - A Visbreaker was commissioned
- A fluidized catalytic cracker was completed in autumn 1984.
- 1988 - A mild hydrocracker was installed
- 1990 - An isomerization unit was commissioned
- In 1994 a sulphur tail gas treatment plant was commissioned and the diesel hydrotreating plant was rebuilt into a desulphurisation/dearomatization unit.
- 2002 - a new unit for production of polymer grade propylene was started.
- 2005 - Foster Wheeler Awarded Study Contract For Fuel Oil Upgrading
- 2006 - A new Hydrocracker and a hydrogen production unit were started.
- 2007 - Preem announces a coker project for the refinery
- 2009 - The Coker project is put on hold
- 2009 - Visbreaker commissioned
- 2016 - Contract signed for residue hydrocracker
Relevant Links
- Technip Refining References
- Persson inaugurated the new plant to produce sulfur-free diesel
- Preem to invest 6 billion in Lysekil
- Foster Wheeler Awarded Study Contract For Fuel Oil Upgrading by Preem Petroleum AB, Sweden
- The Coker project at Preemraff Lysekil has been put on hold
- Honeywell To Modernize Nordics’ Largest Refinery
- CB&I Announces Technology and Development Contract for Residue Upgrading Complex in Sweden
- Supplementary information concerning IMO 2020 regulations
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