Taranto Refinery

Summary Information

• Ownership: ENI
• Website: http://www.eni.com/
• List of ENI Refineries
• Location: Taranto, Italy
• Capacity: 5.5 million tons/annum & 110,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Refining Depth: 64.8%

Brief Description

• A medium sized, complex refinery

Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation
• Vacuum Distillation
• Visbreaker / Thermal Cracker
• Desulphurisation
  • Gasoline
  • Diesel
• Isomerisation Unit - 4,000 bpd
• Resid Hydrocracking Unit
• Residue hydrotreating unit
• Sulphur Recovery Unit

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• It processes most of the oil produced in Eni's Val D Agri Oil Field carried to Taranto through the Monte Alpi Crude Oil Pipeline
• It also processes crude from the Middle East, North and Russia

Products Produced

• It principally produces fuels for automotive use and residential heating purposes for the Southern Italian markets

Projects

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Other Information

• The refinery also acts as an export terminal for domestic crude

History

• 1967 - Refinery commissioned by Snamprogetti with 80,000 bpd capacity
• 1982 - Visbreaker commissioned
• 1989 - Isomerisation Unit commissioned
• 2006 - Residue hydrotreating unit revamped
• 2007 - New Atmospheric Crude Distillation Unit commissioned
• 2010 - A new hydro-cracking unit integrated with the RHU facility started production
• 2013 - ABB wins contract for new export pier

Links

1. Refinery Webpage
2. Refinery Brochure, (Italian)
3. [[[Saipem Grass Roots Refineries]]]
4. [[[Saipem Atmospheric Crude Distillation Units]]]
5. [[[Saipem Naphtha Treating Units]]]
6. [[[Saipem Vacuum Distillation Units]]]
7. [[[Saipem Visbreaking Units]]]
8. [[[Saipem Isomerisation Units]]]
9. [[[Saipem Sulphur Block Units]]]
10. Successful Test Run of UFR at ENI’s Taranto Refinery
11. ABB wins $40 million order to upgrade oil transportation infrastructure in Italy