BP Gelsenkirchen

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BP Gelsenkirchen GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1999
Seat Gelsenkirchen
management José Luis García Galera
Number of employees 1,700. (2013)
Branch mineral oil
Website www.deutschebp.de

BP Gelsenkirchen GmbH provides the employees for the Ruhr Oil refineries in Gelsenkirchen . It employs around 1750 people at the Gelsenkirchen locations. The Ruhr Oel plants in Gelsenkirchen-Scholven and Gelsenkirchen-Horst have a total area of ​​around 360 ha and a production capacity of 12.9 million t / year. The distance between the plants is approx. 7 km. The company is managed by BP Gelsenkirchen GmbH, a subsidiary of BP Refining & Petrochemicals GmbH (BP RP, 100% subsidiary of Deutsche BP).

history

Linnenbrinksweg plant
South gate of the Feldhauser Strasse facility

On July 16, 1935, Hibernia AG founded the hydrogenation plant Scholven AG, in whose hydrogenation plant in 1936 coal was liquefied from hard coal using the IG Farben process . On December 18, 1936, the Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG founded Gelsenberg Petrol AG in Horst, in whose plant the coal liquefaction was successful in 1939. In 1938 the Scholven plant switched production from 200,000 t / year of gasoline to 180,000 t / year of higher- octane aviation gasoline . The Scholven hydrogenation plant produced 216,500 t of fuel in 1943 with 5,907 employees.

The war-important factories in Scholven and Horst had been attacked from the air by the Allies since May 1940 , and air attacks increased in the summer of 1944. In gelsenberg lager on the premises of Gelsenkirchen Benzin AG Horst about 2000 Hungarian and Romanian women and girls were out of the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau held that the forced labor was used in the hydrogenation plant. About 150 of the Jewish women were killed in the heavy bombing raids on the plant on September 11, 1944. They were forbidden from entering bunkers and protective trenches. Gelsenberg Petrol AG and its successor companies have rejected their moral and historical responsibility to this day.

Towards the end of World War II, both plants were almost completely destroyed by more than 5,000 bombs. The reconstruction started slowly. The Petersberg Agreement prevented the works from being dismantled. In 1950 fuel production at the Horst plant can be resumed, but now on the basis of crude oil instead of coal . In 1951, the Hibernia plant in Scholven, which has since been renamed Scholven Chemie AG, begins production and converts it to petroleum a year later. In 1958, Scholven Chemie participated in the crude oil pipeline from Wilhelmshaven to the Ruhr area, the north-west oil pipeline .

In 1959, the Scholven-Chemie-Werk began producing polyethylene , in 1962 with ethylene and propylene the petrochemical industry , and in 1963 olefin production. The uneconomical hydrogenation plant in Scholven was shut down in 1964. In 1967 Scholven Chemie AG and Gelsenberg Petrol AG each acquired 28% of Aral AG . A year later, Scholven Chemie took over the Ruhr Oel chemical plant.

In 1969 Hibernia AG became part of the VEBA Group, and Scholven-Chemie AG was subsequently renamed Veba Chemie AG. In 1975 the chemical and mineral oil production of Gelsenberg AG was taken over by VEBA. The two refineries Scholven and Horst, which are now part of the VEBA Group, have been merged into a production network. In 1978, Veba Chemie AG was renamed Veba Oel AG, and the chemical activities were transferred to Chemische Werke Hüls AG (CWH).

The Veba Oel refineries Scholven and Horst were incorporated into Ruhr Oel in 1983, in which Veba Oel AG and Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) each held a 50% stake. In the same year, plants for hydrocracking and heavy oil hydrogenation began operating at the Scholven plant.

Veba Oel processing company (VVG) was founded in 1999, and Veba Oil Refining & Petrochemicals (VORP) in 2000. The VEBA group merged with VIAG to form E.ON AG . On February 1, 2002, Deutsche BP AG acquired 51% of Veba Oel AG, and in July it also took over the remaining 49% of E.ON AG. Subsequently, VVG was renamed BP Gelsenkirchen GmbH and VORP was renamed BP Refining & Petrochemicals GmbH (BP RP).

On January 1, 2007, the production facility in Münchsmünster (Olefine) was transferred to Basell .

In October 2010 PDVSA sold its 50% stake in Ruhr Oel to the Russian state oil company Rosneft for 1.6 billion US dollars.

On June 19, 2015, BP and Rosneft announced a letter of intent according to which Ruhr Oel AG is to be restructured. The Gelsenkirchen refinery is therefore to go 100% to BP, while Rosneft will in return receive the shares in the MiRO (Karlsruhe), PCK (Schwedt / Oder) and Bayernoil (Vohburg / Donau) refineries .

production

BP Gelsenkirchen has a crude oil distillation capacity of 12.9 million t / year and a petrochemical production capacity of 3.9 million t / year (2004). Around 17 million liters of fuel are produced every day . Since 2004, the high-quality Ultimate fuels have been produced, among other things, besides the ones listed below, a few other products are also manufactured.

product Share of total production at the Horst plant
Diesel fuel 22.4%
Own consumption / other 16.5%
Petrol 14.8%
Heating oil 12.5%
Olefins 11.0%
Aromatics 9.6%
Kerosene 5.9%
bitumen 3.0%
Petroleum coke 2.2%
Methanol 1.9%
ammonia 1.5%

Chimneys

The following chimneys with a height of over 100 meters exist in the plants:

Horst plant

height location
140 m 51.539819 N 7.043730 O

Scholven plant

height location
130 m 51.608639 N 7.020583 O
120 m 51.591842 N 7.028499 O
112.5 m 51.607800 N 7.027629 O
112.5 m 51.607600 N 7.027634 O
110 m 51.597747 N 7.021877 O
110 m 51.597580 N 7.024708 O

Web links

Commons : BP Gelsenkirchen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Management, Who we are, Raffinerie Gelsenkirchen at www.bp.com, accessed on May 13, 2018
  2. ↑ BP and Rosneft agree on restructuring - press release BP in Germany
  3. ^ BP Refining & Petrochemicals GmbH: Capacities 2004
  4. ↑ Information on chimney heights on emporis.com