Rafo Onesti Refinery

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Summary Information

• Ownership: Rafo
• Website: http://www.rafo.ro/
• Location: North-East Romania
• Capacity: 3.5 million tons/annum & 70,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Refining Depth:

Brief Description

• A medium sized medium complexity refinery

Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation
• Vacuum Distillation Unit
• Gasoline Hydrofining Unit
• Catalytic Reforming Unit
• Gasoil Hydrofining Unit
• Vacuum Gasoil Hydrofining Unit
• Catalytic Cracking Unit
• Hydrogen Plants
• Ethers Unit (MTBE and TAME)
• Gas Desulphurization and Sulphur Recovery Unit, used waters stripping
• Gas Fractionation Unit

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

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Products Produced

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Ongoing Projects

• The production activity in the refinery is currently halted as RAFO is undergoing a restructuring and modernization program to transform the refinery into a high conversion producer of clean fuels and aromatics petrochemicals
• See Rafo Onesti Refinery Modernisation Project

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History

• 2006 - Petrochemical Holding GmbH (PCH) acquired a major stake in RAFO S.A. and overtook RAFO debts and made debt to equity swaps according to the reorganization plan.
• 2010 - RAFO successfully closed the insolvency procedure

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