Schwechat Refinery

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Summary Information

• Ownership: OMV
• Website: http://www.omv.com/
  • List of OMV Refineries
• Location: Schwechat, near Vienna
• Capacity: 9.6 Million tons/annum & 192.000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity: 6.2

Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation
• Vacuum Distillation
• Fluidised Catalytic Cracker
• Hydrocracker
• Isomerisation Unit
• Diesel Desulphurisation -27,000 bpd
• A Deep thermal gasoil unit

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• Approx. one million tons of crude oil comes from these domestic subsidies, the rest from abroad, mainly Russia, Kazakhstan, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. The Vienna-Adriatic Pipeline (AWP), a branch of the Trans-Alpine Oil Pipeline (TAL) is pumping the crude oil imported from Trieste directly to the transfer station Schwechat.

Products Produced

• 95 Octane gasoline, 98 Octane gasoline, Diesel, Extra light fuel oil, Low sulfur fuel oil extra light, Light fuel oil, Heavy fuel oil, Jet A-1, Hydrogen, Ethylene, Propylene, Butadiene, Propane, Butane, Bitumen, Sulfur

Ongoing Projects

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Other Information

• The refinery replaced an earlier one that was built in 1938

History

• 1960 - Schwechat Refinery is commissioned
• 1963 - FCC Commissioned
• 1972 - Investments in desulfurisation plants (HDS2) and vacuum as well as atmospheric distillation plants (FP2; RD4)
• 1979 - Construction of a Mild Hydrocrackers
• 2008 - The hydrodesulphurization plant HDS1, was expanded and revamped
• 2009 - A deep thermal gasoil unit (TGU) constructed by Uhde was commissioned

Relevant Links

• Wikipedia OMV
• MODERN DESIGN AND TROUBLESHOOTING TOOLS CREATE A SUCCESSFUL FCC REVAMP
• OMV Schwechat Refinery celebrates the 50th anniversary of its track record
• TGU commissioning at Schwechat, Austria
• Revamp of HDS1 plant in Schwechat successfuly completed

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