Southern European pipeline

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The South European Pipeline (SEPL) is a European pipeline of the Société du Pipeline Sud-Européen (SPSE), which transports crude oil from southern France to Switzerland and to southwest Germany.

course

Oil production in France

It runs over 769 km from the port facilities of the Marseille Europort in the French Rhone Delta into the German Rhine-Neckar area . The starting point is the town of Fos-sur-Mer in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France . The end point is Karlsruhe - Knielingen , which forms a kind of oil hub with the connection to the Transalpine Oil Pipeline (TAL) . The route touches the cities of Lyon , Rhone crossing at Villette-d'Anthon , Bresse , Besançon , Belfort , Strasbourg , Lauterbourg , Jockgrim , Karlsruhe-Knielingen. The highest point of the route is 505 m, on the mountain promontory of Aleyrac in the Drôme department .

power

According to the company's own information, around 23 million tons are currently transported annually, which represents more than 30% of the crude oil transport performance (approx. 15 billion tkm) in Europe. SEPL is part of the European crude oil pipeline network that supplies all inland refineries in Western Europe from the oil ports of the Mediterranean, the English Channel and the North Sea. In 1973 the pipeline reached its highest annual output with 42 million tons. In 1996, the volume transported since it was founded reached 1 billion tons.

The average throughput is 3,000 m³ / h (40 ″ line) and 800 m³ / h (through the 24 ″ line supplied by Feyzin).

power consumption

The energy required to transport the crude oil is produced by 34 centrifugal pumps. Electric motors of 1650 kW each are located in the 12 pumping stations for lines with a pipe diameter of 24 "and up to 2200 kW for pipe diameters of 40". The electricity consumption is approx. 100 GWh / year.

Oil ports and tank farms

The tankers unload the crude oil in the port of Fos-sur-Mer (400,000 tonnes maximum capacity) and naphtha and condensate in the port of Lavéra (50,000 tonnes maximum capacity). The Société du Pipeline Sud-Européen has a tank farm in the immediate vicinity of the port facilities in Fos-sur-Mer with a nominal capacity of 2,260,000 m³, which is divided into 40 tanks. The facilities of the oil port enable the simultaneous handling of tankers with a load capacity of up to 400,000 tons at a discharge speed of 15,000 m³ / h.

The SPSE plants enable the transfer of liquid hydrocarbons through pipelines to the refineries in the Étang de Berre area ( Fos Esso , Ineos Lavéra, Total La Méde, LyondellBasell Berre-l'Étang ) and by sea, via the port facilities that allow tankers to be reloaded. In addition, SPSE operates the Géosel cavern storage facility in Manosque .

Affiliated refineries

Gate valve station in Wörth am Rhein

as well as formerly

SPSE also supplies naphtha and condensate to the Carling (Moselle) (Total Petrochemicals France) platform in Lorraine .

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