Petroplus refinery Reichstett

Petroplus refinery Reichstett
General information about the refinery
Plant of the Petroplus refinery Reichstett
other names	Petroplus Raffinage Reichstett
Operational information
Operating company	Petroplus
Start of operation	1963
End of oil processing	April 2011
Processing plant
Input materials	oil
Annual capacity in t	4,250,000
Daily capacity in bbl	84,800
Nelson index	5.3
Geographical location
Coordinates	48 ° 39 ′ 51.5 "  N , 7 ° 46 ′ 7"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 39 ′ 51.5 "  N , 7 ° 46 ′ 7"  E
Location of the Petroplus refinery in Reichstett
republic	French Republic
Country	France

The Petroplus-Raffinerie Reichstett (PRR) was a French refinery in Reichstett in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region . Shortly before Petroplus went bankrupt , the refinery was shut down in 2011.

history

The Reichstett refinery was put into operation in 1963 on a 650 hectare site. Initially, Shell, Total and BP were shareholders in the refinery, in 2006 Shell took over the shares of BP and Total.

The refinery was sold by Shell on April 1, 2008 , together with the Berre-l'Etang and Petit Couronne refineries . While the Berre-l'Etang refinery went to Basell , Petit Couronne and Reichstett were sold to Petroplus.

On October 21, 2010, Petroplus announced its intention to shut down the refinery. The crude oil processing was stopped with the depletion of the crude oil stocks in April 2011. Parts of the tank farm will continue to be operated as a terminal by Rubis SCA .

Technical specifications

The refinery was connected to the oil port of Fos-sur-Mer via the southern European pipeline .

Processing plants

• Atmospheric distillation
• Vacuum distillation
• Visbreaker
• Fluid catalytic crackers
• Catalytic reformer
• Product hydrotreater
• Sulfur recovery
• Bitumen plants

Web links

Commons : Reichstett Refinery  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Petroleum wiki: Petroplus-Raffinerie Reichstett (engl.)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Crude runs ending at Reichstett refinery. In: Oil & Gas Journal. March 31, 2011, accessed August 7, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Petroplus Annual Report 2009 . 2010.
3. ↑ Oil multinational Shell sells refinery Reichstett. In: www.bo.de. January 18, 2007, accessed August 7, 2020 . 
4. ^ Refining and Marketing. 2006, accessed on August 7, 2020 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Uchenna Izundu: Shell agrees to sell three French refineries. In: Oil & Gas Journal. August 2, 2007, accessed August 7, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Bas-Rhin: la refinery de Reichstett fermera le 30 juin (Petroplus). Le Parisien , March 31, 2011, accessed November 10, 2018 (French).