Reficar Cartagena Refinery Expansion, Colombia - EKN

1101335.000 04F1 0611 MJ21
7
June 21, 2011
and butane production and storage tanks were installed in 1992. Following in 1994 was an
expansion of storage, including three gasoline tanks, one crude tank, two jet fuel tanks, and one
aromatic tar tank. The asphalt plant commenced operations at the site in 1993 and ceased
operations in 2003. The asphalt plant building is currently abandoned.
The current refinery utilizes a mix of 85% Colombian and 15% imported crude while exporting
about 47% of its product mix. The existing refinery has a current capacity to process
80,000 bpd of crude oil, visbreaking 25,000 bpd, and fluid cracking 29,000 bpd. The current
operations consist of the following (see Figure 3):
� One atmospheric crude unit (primary distillation unit) that processes the
crude feedstock into naphtha, gasoline, diesel, fuel oil, etc.
� One vacuum unit used to separate the atmospheric column residuum into
lighter fractions (light gas oil, heavy gas oil, vacuum residuum)
� One visbreaker unit for cracking the vacuum residuum into lighter fractions
� One fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) used for cracking the gas oils
generated by the vacuum unit
� One polymerization unit that uses olefins produced in the FCCU to produce
propane, butane, and polymer gasoline
� One sulfur plant that produces sweet gas for electricity generation and
sulfuric acid for sale.
The current principal refining products are LPG, high-sulfur gasoline, Jet A, diesel, marine
diesel, arotar (aromatic tar), No. 6 fuel oil, propylene, and sulfur.
Support facilities include:
� Five turbo-generators, 31 turbines, and 8 compressors, fuel oil and
natural/refinery gas fired (22.5 MW)