South European Pipeline
The South European Pipeline ( SEPL ) is a European pipeline, the Société du Pipeline Sud- Europeen ( SPSE), the crude oil from southern France to Switzerland and heads to West Germany.
Course
It runs 769 km from the port facilities of the Marseille port euros in the French Rhone Delta in the German Rhein- Neckar area. The starting point is the place Fos -sur -Mer in the south of France, Bouches -du -Rhône. Endpoint is Karlsruhe- Knielingen, which forms a kind of oil hub to the port on the Transalpine Pipeline (TAL ). The line tangent to the cities of Lyon, Rhone- transition in Villette- d'Anthon, Bresse, Besançon, Belfort, Strasbourg, Lauterbourg, Jockgrim, Karlsruhe - Knielingen. The highest point of the route is 505 m, on the promontory of Aleyrac in the Drome.
Performance
According to the company about 23 million tons are being transported, which represents more than 30 % of the crude oil transport capacity (about 15 billion tonne-km ) in Europe. The SEPL is part of the European crude oil pipeline network that supplies all domestic refineries of the Western European area of the oil ports of the Mediterranean Sea, the English Channel and the North Sea. In 1973, the pipeline reached its highest annual output of 42 million tons. 1996 reached the transported since the founding quantities 1 billion tons.
The average throughput is 3,000 m³ / h (40 "cable ) and 800 m³ / h ( by the 24 " line, the Feyzin supplied ).
Energy consumption
The transportation of crude oil required energy is produced from 34 centrifugal pumps. Electric motors, each 1650 kW are in the 12 pumping stations for lines with pipe diameter 24 "and up to 2200 kW for tube diameter 40 ". The power consumption is about 100 GWh / year.
Oil ports and tank farms
The tankers unload crude oil at the port of Fos -sur -Mer ( 400,000 tonnes maximum loading) and naphtha and condensate in the port Lavéra ( 50,000 tons maximum capacity). The Société du Pipeline Sud- Europeen features in the immediate vicinity of the docks in Fos -sur -Mer has a storage tank with a nominal capacity of 2,260,000 cubic meters, which is divided into 40 tanks. The investments of the oil port enable simultaneous handling of tankers with a carrying capacity up to 400,000 tons with a deletion rate of 15,000 m³ / h
The investments of the SPSE allow the transfer of liquid hydrocarbons through pipelines, to the refineries served by the main lines of the room Etang de Berre ( Fos Esso, Ineos Lavera, Total La Mede, LyondellBasell Berre- l'Étang ) as well as by sea, via the reloading the tanker enabling port facilities. In addition, the SPSE operates the caverns bearing Géosel in Manosque.
Connected refineries
- ELF Feyzin, Lyon, France
- VITOL Cressier, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- Petroplus CRR Reichstett, Alsace, France
- Petroleum refinery Upper Rhine, Karlsruhe, Germany
And formerly
- Refinery Wörth, Germany
- Petroleum refinery Mannheim, Germany
SPSE also provides the platform of Carling (Moselle) ( Total Petrochemicals France ) in Lorraine with naphtha and condensate.