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

• 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

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.
• A mild hydrocracker was installed in 1988
• An isomerization unit in 1990.
• In 1994 a sulphur tail gas treatment plant was commissioned and the diesel hydrotreating plant was rebuilt into a desulphurisation/dearomatization unit.
• In 2002 a new unit for production of polymer grade propylene was started.
• 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

Relevant Links

• Persson inaugurated the new plant to produce sulfur-free diesel
• Preem to invest 6 billion in Lysekil
• The Coker project at Preemraff Lysekil has been put on hold

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