Sines Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Galp
- Website: http://www.galpenergia.com/
- Location: Sines port, 150 kilometres south of Lisbon
- Capacity: 10.8 million tons/annum & 220,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- A medium sized medium complexity refinery
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Vacuum Distillation
- Fluidised Catalytic Cracking (FCC)
- FCC Gasoline Desulphurisation
- Platforming and CCR
- Merox
- Isomax
- Visbreaker
- Alkylation
- Desulphurisation
- Sulphur recovery
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil: 1.5 million m3
- Refined Products: 1.5 million m3
Crude Supply
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Products Produced
- Gasoline, Diesel, LPG , Fuel oil, Naphtha, Jet fuel, Bitumen, Sulphur
- These fuels are produced according to the most recent environmental requirements, namely gasolines and diesels with very low sulphur content (10 ppm).
Ongoing Projects
- For details see Sines Refinery Upgrade Project
- The project for conversion of the Sines refinery consists of the construction of a new hydrocracker, i.e. a unit for hydrocracking heavy gasoil, for the production of diesel and aviation fuel.
Other Information
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History
- 1978 - Sines refinery started operating
- 2002 - Fluor built a grassroot hydrodesulphurization unit
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