Petrobrazi Refinery

Petrobrazi Refinery is one of the largest Romanian refineries and one of the largest in Eastern Europe, located in Ploieşti, Prahova County having as a main activity the processing of Romanian oil but also has a separate unit specialised in processing chemical products.[1] The refinery had two processing modules with a nominal capacity of 3.5 million tonnes/year each and a total capacity of 7 million tonnes/year.[1] Now only one of the two modules is operational and has a capacity of 4.1 million tonnes/year or 90,000 bbl/d (14,000 m3/d), 1 million tonnes larger due to an investment program from 1999 - 2000.[1] The facility is connected by pipeline to virtually all of the oil fields in Romania by an extensive pipe network and to the Port of Constanţa by a pipeline with a capacity of 10,000 tonnes/day.[1]

Petrobrazi Refinery
General information
TypeOil refinery
LocationPloieşti, Prahova County
Coordinates44°52′18″N 26°0′27″E
Elevation80 m (262 ft)
Completed1934
OwnerPetrom
Height120 metres (chimney)
Technical details
Floor area520 hectares (55,972,334 sq ft)

History

Petrobrazi was founded in 1934 in a strategic industrial zone of 440 ha (4.4 km2) located in Southern Romania near Ploieşti.[2] The first oil processing capacity was established in 1934 and had a processing capacity of 300,000 tonnes/year.[1] In 1962 Petrobrazi becomes the first modern refinery in Romania with the addition of the catalytic cracking and reforming processes.[2] In 1965 the refinery was integrated with the Petrochemical Complex. In 1997 the state established Petrom as the national oil company also including the Petrobrazi Refinery.[2] In 2003 the refinery becomes the first facility of its kind in Romania that has its own cogeneration power plant.[2] With its nominal processing capacity of 7 million tonnes/year, Petrobrazi is the largest Romanian refinery.[1] It is also the most efficient refinery in Romania having a Nelson complexity index of 11.4.[1]

Between 2004 and 2022, OMV Petrom invested over €2bn in the Petrobrazi refinery.

References
  1. "Petrobrazi Refinery" (in Romanian). Prime Transaction. 2009-02-18. Archived from the original on May 14, 2007. Retrieved 2009-02-18.
  2. "Petrom is the Largest Romanian Refiner". Petrom. 2009-02-18. Retrieved 2009-02-18.
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