Sannazzaro De Burgondi Refinery
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Summary Information

  • Ownership: ENI
  • Website: http://www.eni.com/
  • Location: Po Valley, Italy
  • Capacity: 9.0 million tons/annum & 180,000 bbl/day
  • Nelson Complexity:
  • Refining Depth: 61.2%

Brief Description

  • A large highly medium complexity refinery, Eni believes that this unit is among the most efficient refineries in Europe.

Refining Units

  • Atmospheric Distillation
  • Vacuum Distillation
  • Fluid catalytic cracker (FCC),
  • Mild hydrocracker (HDCK)
  • Visbreaking thermal conversion unit
  • Catalytic Reformer
  • Sulphur Recovery
  • Gasification facility

Terminal Capacity

  • Crude Oil:
  • Refined Products:

Crude Supply

  • The high degree of flexibility of this refinery allows it to process a wide range of feedstock
  • The refinery is located along the course of the oil pipeline connecting up the terminal in Genoa with the Swiss French canton.
  • The quantity of crude oil received from Genoa, coming by ship mainly from Russia, Africa, North Europe and the Middle East, amounts to about 90%.
  • The remaining quantity also comes by oil pipeline from the Villafortuna oilfields near Trecate (Novara).

Products Produced

  • LPG, Gasoline, Jet Fuel, Diesel, Bunker Fuel, Asphalt, Sullphur

Ongoing Projects

  • Eni plans to develop a conversion plant employing the Eni Slurry Technology with a 23 kbbl/d capacity for the processing of extra heavy crude with high sulphur content producing high quality middle distillates, in particular gasoil, and reducing the yield of fuel oil to zero. Start-up of this facility is scheduled in 2012.
  • For details see Sannazzaro Refinery Upgrade Project

Other Information

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History

  • 1963 - Operation began with a capacity of 5 million tons/year
  • 1975 - Capacity was doubled
  • 2009 - Eni completed the upgrading of the refinery capacity and flexibility increased by a new HDCK with 28 kbbl/d capacity

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