Teesside Refinery

The Teesside refinery (English Teesside Refinery ) was a refinery near the village Seaton Carew, in the English region of North East England. 5.85 million tons of crude Ekofisk were processed each year. The refinery was shut down on November 5, 2009 by Petroplus and should be converted into a marketing and storage facility. After the collapse of Petroplus the conversion plan is faltering.

The refinery

The refinery was commissioned in 1966. She was in Seaton Carew, which lies in the neighborhood of places Hartlepool and Middlesbrough. The name of the refinery was from Teesside conurbation, which in turn was named after the River Tees, is derived.

1981 one of the two crude distillation was shut down and demolished. Simultaneously, the other was increased in capacity, so that the crude oil processing capacity was increased from 4 to 5 million tons / year. 1996 numerous changes at the refinery as the installation of new desulfurization units and sour water stripper were made again. In 2000, the refinery of Phillips Imperial Petroleum Ltd., now the Phillips 66 was sold to Petroplus.

In November 2009, the refinery was shut down because they had a high investment requirements and the Raffieriegeschaft 2009 suffered large excess capacity. The production had already stopped for economic reasons in the second quarter of 2009 as sales of naphtha products was deficient. The refinery was to be converted into a terminal for the storage and handling of petroleum products. The project came with the insolvency of Pertroplus to a halt.

The processing plants

The refinery spread over 40 acres of inventory and in their decommissioning from:

• A crude oil distillation ( 117,000 bbl / d)
• A hydrotreater for Distillates ( 32,000 bbl / d)
• Sulfur recovery (4 tons / d)
• Tank and delivery systems

Was processability in the refinery only the light and sweet Ekofiskrohöl, which was purchased directly through a pipeline. The business was increasingly unrentabeler By focusing on only one type of crude oil. The products were shipped mainly to the northeast of Great Britain by truck and rail tank cars. The crude oil tanks of the refinery preconceived 2.4 million barrels, of which 0.9 million in tanks and were stored in underground salt domes of the adjacent SABIC 1.5.

The Nelson - index indicates the complexity of the processing was very low at 1.6.

Products

The yield of the products consisted of:

• 33 % diesel
• 5% kerosene
• 25 % naphtha for chemical plants
• 36 % Atmospheric residue
• 1% process loss and self-consumption

The atmospheric residue was sulfur and was deposed as heavy fuel oil.