Wilhelmshaven refinery
The Wilhelmshaven refinery is a crude oil refinery with tank farm in Wilhelmshaven , which went into operation in 1976 and which changed operators several times and was temporarily only used as a tank farm. It is currently operated by HES Wilhelmshaven GmbH , a subsidiary of HES International (previously: Hestya Energy ).
history
The history of the Wilhelmshaven refinery began on June 21, 1972 with the signing of a contract between Mobil Oil AG Germany, the state of Lower Saxony and the city of Wilhelmshaven for the construction of a refinery in the newly diked Voslapper Groden . Construction began in 1973.
As early as September 1975, before the refinery was completed, the Liberian-flagged tanker “Monrovia” brought the first 80,000 tons of crude oil from Algeria. Mobil Oil began production on September 14, 1976. The oil crisis of 1979 , the subsequent economic recession and the associated decline in the consumption of mineral oil products led to the cessation of production on March 31, 1985. Only after it was sold to Beta Raffinerie Wilhelmshaven GmbH was the refinery put back into operation on September 1, 1991.
On January 25, 1997, the Beta refinery was taken over by the Wilhelmshavener Raffineriegesellschaft (today: HES Wilhelmshaven GmbH ). Business was good and on June 7, 2002, the thousandth tanker since it was put back into service in 1997 unloaded its cargo. In March 2006, the refinery became the property of ConocoPhillips , who owned the facilities from Louis Dreyfus Energy Holdings Ltd. bought.
After the plant had ceased operations in autumn 2009 and over the harsh winter of 2009/2010, when it was restarted in early May 2010, important systems were destroyed in a fire. The fire brigade brought the fire under control, but refinery operations have not been able to start since then. In July 2011, after five years of waiting, the US corporation ConocoPhillips announced that it had abandoned plans to invest billions in Jade. The local facility is either to be sold or to be continued as a tank farm. The contents of the tanks would then no longer come from Wilhelmshaven, but from other refineries.
In 2011 what was then Hestya Energy , today's HES International BV , acquired the ConocoPhillips plant. However, the refinery was not restarted. The tank farm has been operated as a terminal since 2012. The number of employees was greatly reduced, with an average of 84 people in 2015. In 2018, plans to resume fuel production were announced. In May 2020, the production of heavy fuel oil from low-sulfur petroleum was resumed.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Chronology of the City of Wilhelmshaven ( Memento from July 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Conoco Phillips wants to convert the refinery into a tank farm - 400 employees should go , Weser-Ems business portal of October 12, 2011; Accessed January 7, 2012.
- ↑ Press release from Hestya Energy BV of August 10, 2011 ( Memento of the original of March 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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; 50 kB), accessed on August 20, 2011.
- ↑ Reporting on Bloomberg.com August 15, 2011 , accessed August 19, 2011.
- ↑ NWZ-Online, edition of January 7th, 2012 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Accessed January 7, 2012.
- ↑ Bild-Online from January 5, 2012 ; Accessed January 7, 2012.
- ^ Federal Gazette : 2015 annual financial statements of HES Wilhelmshaven GmbH
- ↑ Gerd Abeldt: HES wants to hire employees and expand tank volumes . In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung. March 13, 2018, accessed March 14, 2018 .
- ^ Tank farm will soon be back at the Wilhelmshavener Zeitung refinery of July 27, 2018
- ↑ Gerd Abeldt: Wilhelmshaven has a refinery again. In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung . May 23, 2020, accessed May 23, 2020 .
Web links
- Data on the terminal at HES International , accessed on May 23, 2020
Coordinates: 53 ° 36 '46 " N , 8 ° 5' 46" E