REFICAR refinery

Also known as: 

Cartagena

Medium sized, complex refinery located in Cartagena, Colombia.  

100% owned and operated by Ecopetrol.

Refinery configuration

Complexity: 9.3

Major process units:

Atmospheric distillation: 165 kbpd

Vacuum distillation - 102 kbpd

Coking - 45 kbpd

Visbreaking - 20 kbpd

FCC - 36 kbpd

Distillate hydrotreater - 70 kbpd

VGO hydrotreater - 50 kbpd

FCC naphtha hydrotreater - 20 kbpd

Alkylation - 9.7 kbpd

C4 Isomerization - 1.5 kbpd

Polymerisation - 2.2 kbpd

Location

Zona Industrial de Mamonal, Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia

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Refinery history

1909 - commissioned

2015 - large expansion, revamp, and modernization project completed