Agioi Theodoroi refinery

Also known as:

Corinth refinery

Agioi Theodoroi is a medium-sized, high-complexity refinery in the Corinth region of Greece, about 70 km outside of Athens.

The refinery is owned and operated by Motor Oil Hellas.

Most of its product is exported.  The refinery is the only producer of base oils in Greece.

Refinery configuration

Agioi Theodoroi is a high-complexity plant with asphalt and visbreaker for bottoms conversion as well as an FCC, hydrocracker and base oil plant

Complexity: 12.6

Major process units:

Atmospheric distillation - 185 kbpd

Vacuum distillation  - 112 kbpd

Visbreaker - 26 kbpd 

Hydrocracker  - 45 kbpd 

FCC  - 31 kbpd 

Alkylation - 2 kbpd 

Polymerization - 2 kbpd 

C5/C6 Isomerization - 5 kbpd

Reformer - 20 - kbpd Continuous (CCR) unit

Naphtha hydrotreater - 21 kbpd  

FCC gasoline hydrotreater - 18 kbpd

Distillate hydrotreater - 74 kbpd

Aromatics extraction - 9 kbpd

Hydrogen production 

Oxygenates plant - 1 kbpd

Base oil plant - 4 kbpd

Asphalt plant - 16 kbpd

Cogen - 85 MW

Storage - 1 M cubic meters of crude, 1.6 M cubic meters of product and intermediates

Refinery history

1972 - Refinery commissioned with distillation and base oil production

1975 - Addition of 100 kbpd distillation unit and tank farm

1978 - Addition of catalytic reforming unit

1980 - FCC added

2000 - Multiple new units added and reformer upgraded to CCR

2004 - Truck loading terminal added

2005 - Hydrocracker added ($300 Euro project)

2010 - New 60 kbpd CDU and 170 Mtd sulfur recovery unit added

2022 - Added capacity for Naphtha hydrotreater (22 kbpd) , CCR reformer (17kbpd), C5 isomerization (5 kbpd). $346MM project.  UOP technology.