Refinery Heide
| Raffinerie Heide GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 2010 |
| Seat | Hemmingstedt / Brunsbüttel |
| management | Jürgen Wollschläger |
| Number of employees | approx. 560 |
| sales | 2.3 billion euros |
| Branch | chemistry |
| Website | www.heiderefinery.com |
| Status: 2018 | |
The Heide refinery GmbH is a German oil refinery -Unternehmen with locations in Hemmingstedt (near the eponymous town of Heide in Dithmarschen ) and Brunsbüttel . The two locations are connected by nine pipelines , each 32 kilometers long . The Heide refinery has been held by US investor A. Gary Klesch since 2010 . The refinery focuses on middle distillate and petrochemicals and produces diesel fuel , heating oil , aviation turbine fuel and chemical products as its main products. The production with a total capacity of approx. 4.5 million tons per year is mainly distributed in the northern part of Germany.
Locations
Hemmingstedt
With a crude oil capacity of 4.5 million tons per year, the Heide refinery is a refinery with a comparatively low processing volume. However, its complexity is rated with a Nelson Index of 9.9, which shows that it is one of the most complex refineries in Germany. Around 15% of the crude oil processed comes from the largest oil field in Germany, Mittelplate and Dieksand . In addition to production, the Hemmingstedt location has its own power plant , a works fire brigade and a tank farm with a storage capacity of 460,000 tons.
With a property area of approx. 134 hectares, the refinery site in Hemmingstedt makes up more than half of the total area of the refinery (in addition there are approx. 53 hectares of tank farm in Brunsbüttel and approx. 16 hectares of land on which the nine pipelines that both of them are located Connect locations with each other).
Brunsbuettel
The Brunsbüttel site is located on the northwest side of the Kiel Canal and is part of the Chemcoast Park Brunsbüttel. With a storage capacity of 440,000 tons and an annual product turnover of 2.2 million tons, the Brunsbüttel tank farm is the main warehouse of the Heide refinery. Not only are the facilities for unloading crude oil located here, the long-distance transport pipeline of the Mittelplate production platform also flows here. The crude oil is transported to the refinery and, in parallel, the finished products to Brunsbüttel through three 32-kilometer strings, each with three pipelines.
Products
Petroleum products
The average quantities produced annually are made up of the following mineral oil products:
- 63.2% middle distillates
- 16.3% petrol
- 13.6% heavy fuel oil
- 3.9% bitumen
- 3.0% others
Chemical products
In addition to the mineral oil products, there are also the preliminary products for the chemical industry with the following average quantities:
distribution
The Heide refinery GmbH exclusively supplies wholesalers and distributors with their products.
Transport and delivery routes
The products of this refinery are transported:
- 53% by ship
- 36% by tanker
- 5% by rail
- 6% by pipeline
history
The history of the Heide refinery begins with Peter Reimers, who discovered oily sands on his property in 1856 . Shortly afterwards, Ludwig Meyn carried out the first oil well with a hand tool. After the first drilling failed, bitumen , car grease and petroleum were extracted from the oily sand from 1858 onwards .
Since the workers repeatedly came across oil chalk while drilling, it was decided to mine it. From 1880 the oil chalk was mined in Hemmingstedt. However, since the search for crude oil had not been given up, the “Holstein 2” well encountered liquid oil at a depth of 400 meters in 1935. As a result of several other successful wells, the production capacity swelled to 231,347 tons / year by 1940. The increased demand for fuels by the navy gave the impetus to build the first continuously working crude oil distillation in Hemmingstedt. Two crude oil distillation plants with a total capacity of 100,000 tons / year were built.
During the Second World War , several bombings destroyed the refinery in 1944. In 1947 the still usable systems were repaired. In 1949, the production of oil chalk was given up and the Hemmingstedt location expanded into a pure refinery.
In 1952 the Hemmingstedt refinery commissioned Germany's first catalytic crack plant. A year later, the first pipeline was laid between Hemmingstedt and Brunsbüttel. With the takeover of the refinery by Texaco in 1967, several new plants were built. Including a crude oil and vacuum distillation plant.
In 1988, RWE Dea took over the refinery and completely modernized it. In addition, a newly built hydrocracker allowed a previously unknown product yield. Shortly afterwards, the Royal Dutch Shell became the new sole owner and, through further investments, made the refinery one of the most modern in Europe. Since 2010, the refinery has been part of the Klesch Group of US financial investor A. Gary Klesch and operates under the name Raffinerie Heide GmbH .
literature
- Hinrich Dürkop: The oil works near Heide in Dithmarschen 1856-2006. Boyens Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8042-1233-6 .
- Nis R. Nissen : One hundred and twenty-five 125 years of petroleum in Dithmarschen: a special exhibition in memory of Ludwig Meyn at the Dithmarscher State Museum in Meldorf. German Texaco, 1981, DNB 1044798009 .
- Robert Bohn : History of Schleswig-Holstein. CH Beck, 2006, ISBN 3-406-50891-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Data and facts. Refinery Heide, accessed September 10, 2019 .
- ^ Michael Plata: The oil works in Hemmingstedt . January 12, 2011, accessed October 10, 2013.
Web links
- heiderefinery.com own website
- For the sustainable development of the industrial location Germany of the IG BCE
- Document on the modernization of the refinery of company Intergraph (Engl.)
- Michael Plata: The oil works in Hemmingstedt at beirat-fuer-geschichte.de (PDF, 18 pages)
Coordinates: 54 ° 9 ′ 28.2 " N , 9 ° 4 ′ 27.8" E