La Plata

La Plata is a medium sized refinery located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Runs mostly domestic crude from the Santa Cruz province.

100% owned and operated by YPF.

Refinery configuration

Complexity: 6.1

Major process units:

Atmospheric distillation: 206 kbpd

Vacuum distillation - 68 kbpd

Coking - 50 kbpd

FCC - 58.5 kbpd

Reformer (CCR) - 11.3 kbpd

Naphtha hydrotreater - 20.4 kbpd

Distillate hydrotreater - 43.2 kbpd

FCC naphtha hydrotreater - 8.6 kbpd

C5/C6 Isomerization - 7.5 kbpd

Oxygenates plant - 5.6 kbpd

Base oil plant - 4.7 kpd

Asphalt plant - 5.4 kbpd

Location

Baradero, Ensenada, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Refinery history

1925 - built

2012 - major fire in one coker which shut it down until 2016 when it was replaced