Sarroch Refinery

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Summary Information

• Ownership: Saras SPA
• Website: http://www.saras.it/
• Location: The Southwestern coast of Sardinia
• Capacity: 15 million tons/annum & 300,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity: 9.2
• Refining Depth: 80%+

Brief Description

• A very large high conversion capacity refinery, with a high export sales percentage. The refinery employs a gasification unit to generate electricity from residual product

Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation, 300,000
• Vacuum Distillation, 105,000
• Visbreaking, 41,000
• Distillate Cracking (FCC), 86,000
• Cat Reforming (CCR), 29,000
• Distilliate Hydrocracking, 115,000
• Hydrotreating, 107,000
• Alkylation, 8,000
• Oxygenates (TAME), 7,000
• Hydrogen/PSA (MMcfd), 62,000

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• Saras is able to refine different types of crude oil, including cheaper qualities (such as heavy sour) and unconventional crude oils with specific characteristics (paraffinic, acidic, etc.), obtaining quality oil products (such as low-environmental-impact gasoline and diesel), with superior refining margins.
• Crude comes from Libya, Russia, the North Sea and The Middle East

Products Produced

• LPG, Gasoline, Diesel, Jet Fuel, Sulphur & Fuel Oil
• The majority of heavy refining residues is sent to the IGCC plant

Ongoing Projects

• Saras is revamping its Hydrocracker to upgrade of the mild hydrocracker's capacity, performance and conversion
• See Sarroch Refinery Upgrade Project

Other Information

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History

• 1965 - The Sarroch refinery commissioned by Snamprogetti with a capacity of 135,000 bpd
• 1968 - A new topping plant and fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) plant are added
• 1970 - The alkalisation unit and a sewage treatment plant begin operation
• 1983 - A visbreaking unit (45,000 bl/day) and a vacuum plant (60,000 bl/day)are built
• 1984 - A new reforming (CCR) plant enters operation (30,000 bl/day)
• 1992 - A new mild hydrocracking plant (MHC) enters operation (70,000 bl/day)
• 2007 - Upgrading of some refinery key units successfully completed

Relevant Links

• Refinery Webpage
• Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract by Saras for Refinery Revamp in Italy
• Saipem Oil Refining References

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