Cape Town refinery

Also known as:

Astron

Cape Town is a medium sized, medium complexity refinery located in Cape Town, South Africa.

The refinery is owned and operated by Astron, a subsidiary of Glencore.

The refinery stopped production in 2020 after a fire, but is planning to restart by end of 2022.

Refinery configuration

Complexity: 6.4

Major process units:

Atmospheric distillation - 110 kbpd

Vacuum distillation    

RCC    

Visbreaker    

Hydrocracker - Isomax

Polymerization    

C5/C6 Isomerization   

Reformer - Semiregen  unit 

Naphtha hydrotreater  

Distillate hydrotreater   

Location

Cape Town refinery

Astron website

Refinery history