Mobil Oil Refinery Wörth

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The Mobil Oil Refinery Wörth GmbH was an oil refinery in the city of Wörth am Rhein in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Choice of location and construction

The DEA had already recognized the suitability of the site for the construction of an oil refinery, as it would be near the Rhine port of Wörth and at the end of the crude oil pipelines from Marseille ( SEPL ) and Northern Italy ( TAL ) and mapped the site in 1957. Nevertheless, the decision was made DEA to build their refinery in Karlsruhe .

On January 5, 1962, Mobil Oil bought an area of ​​55 hectares from the municipality of Wörth to build the refinery. The total area was 120 hectares. Construction work began in the spring of 1968, and by 1969 the central chimney had reached its height of 150 meters. At the end of January 1970, specification-compliant products were produced for the first time. The official handover of the refinery took place on June 22, 1970. The investment was 260 million marks, the capacity of the 71 production and storage tanks was 597,000 m³. Initially, the refinery had 250 employees. In 1971 the capacity totaled 3.5 million tons, but was later increased to a capacity of 6.0 million tons. In 1978 the capacity of the conversion plants, also known as crackers, was 670,000 t. In March 1973 a plant for the production of bitumen products with a capacity of around 300,000 tons was completed. Additional tanks were built in the following years. With the 1973 oil crisis, Mobil-Oil initially refrained from any planned expansion. In 1976, investments were made in facilities for the production of jet fuel and for connecting the refinery to the NATO pipeline system , with a contribution from the federal government. By the end of 1979, 355 million marks had been invested in the refinery.

Shutdown and dismantling

Due to overcapacities on the European refinery market and the very high environmental protection requirements in Germany compared to other European countries, the refinery came under pressure and was no longer able to assert itself internationally. The shutdown was announced at a press conference on May 31, 1995. On September 30, 1995, the processing of crude oil was stopped and the facilities were shut down. At the time of the decommissioning decision, 318 people were working in the refinery. This decision was particularly explosive because Mobil Oil announced on December 12, 1995 that it would rebuild the refinery in India . On June 30, 1996, all decommissioning work was completed and the plant was finally closed.

The dismantling of the refinery was completed at the end of January 2000, the dismantling and excavation of contaminated soil cost 7.6 million euros and took place by 2001.

Remain and rebuild in India

The dismantled system was stored in the port of Moerdijk (Netherlands) for more than 10 years before the 150,000 tons of cargo in 2008/2009 were brought to India by sea freight in 13 shipments by the German consortium Deugro / COLI . Off the coast of the port of Cuddalore , state of Tamil Nadu , the bulky parts, some of which weighed tons, were loaded onto pontoons and barges and brought ashore via a special jetty. In Cuddalore, Nagarjuna Oil Corporation Ltd (NOCL) is developing a modern crude oil refinery as the largest single investment in the state of Tamil Nadu. In the first phase, a production capacity of 6 million tons of crude oil per year will be established by the end of 2012, for which 134.9 million US dollars will be spent. For a second phase until 2015 (15 Mt / a) up to 224.8 million US dollars are to be invested.

The NOCL is a company founded by the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO). The majority owner of the NOCL (51%) is the agrochemical company Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd (NFCL), Tata Petrodyne , Uhde and the port company Cuddalore Port hold further shares . The oil trader Trafigura has been a partner in the NOCL since 2012 .

conversion

In 1999, Mobil-Oil committed itself to the redevelopment of the site in a public law agreement with the district of Germersheim. The remediation plan had been in place since 1997, and at the same time as the refinery was dismantled, the remediation of soil and groundwater contamination began. 640,000 m³ of contaminated soils were excavated and biologically rehabilitated and reinstalled on the site in a soil treatment plant, the contaminated groundwater was pumped from wells and also cleaned on site. The renovation lasted until 2006, in the aftercare phase until 2010 the groundwater was monitored, in some cases until 2013.

In 2001, the Palm paper mill moved to the site of the former refinery . In addition, the industrial area of ​​Wörth-Oberwald was created , in which other companies settled, including a forwarding company, a metal processing company, a seat manufacturer and a central warehouse of a discounter. In addition, a plant for Central German soft drinks was created between 2012 and 2014 on an area of ​​22 hectares . The investment was more than 100 million euros. According to the works, around 150 jobs have been created.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Official Journal Wörth am Rhein: Special supplement paper factory Palm ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 17 MB), April 2, 2006 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / woerth.de
  2. ^ Manfred Bader, Albert Ritter and Albert Schwarz: Wörth am Rhein. Local history. Two volumes. City of Wörth am Rhein and Manfred Bader, Wörth am Rhein 1983, together 1831 p., P. 1589 ff.
  3. ↑ Capacity 1971 in Meinrad Schaab , Hansmartin Schwarzmaier (Ed.) U. a .: Handbook of Baden-Württemberg History . Volume 5: Economic and social history since 1918, overviews and materials, complete index. Edited on behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-608-91371-2 , p. 293.
  4. ↑ Capacity of the conversion systems ( Memento from November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Manfred Bader, Albert Ritter and Albert Schwarz: Wörth am Rhein. Local history. Two volumes. City of Wörth am Rhein and Manfred Bader, Wörth am Rhein 1983, together 1831 p., P. 1604 f.
  6. ↑ Mineralölwirtschaftsverband : Der Deutsche Mineralölmarkt (PDF; 553 kB), in: Mineralöl und Raffinerien , September 2003
  7. ↑ FAZ: Mobil Oil closes the refinery in Wörth, June 2, 1995 (No. 127), p. 20
  8. ^ WSV Beratende Ingenieure Saarbrücken: Dismantling of the Mobil Oil refinery in Wörth, Rhineland-Palatinate ( Memento from August 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), April 7, 2013
  9. ↑ Coli Schiffahrt & Transport GmbH & Co. KG: Case study - relocation of a used refinery system ( Memento from October 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), photos, accessed on July 4, 2013.
  10. ^ Hydrocarbons-technology.com: Nagarjuna Oil Corporation's Cuddalore Refinery, Tamil Nadu, India
  11. ↑ Structure and Approval Directorate South ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2013 Annual Report, accessed June 8, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sgdsued.rlp.de
  12. ↑ brand eins : Das Wunder von Wörth ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: Neuland 01/2007 - The Southern Palatinate @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / neuland.brandeins.de
  13. ↑ Dieter Wiebelt: "'Saskia' springs from the Rhine", in: Die Rheinpfalz , Pfälzer Tageblatt, Rheinschiene edition , regional economy page, May 14, 2014.

Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′ 12 ″  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 8.6 ″  E