Salamanca refinery

Also known as: 

Antonio M Amor

The Salamanca refinery is a large, medium conversion refinery located northwest of Mexico City in Salamanca, Guanajuato in Mexico.

The refinery is owned and operated by Pemex.

Refinery configuration

Complexity: 7.3

Major process units:

Atmospheric distillation: 250 kbpd

Vacuum distillation - 143 kbpd

FCC - 40 kbpd

Reformer (SR) - 36.1 kbpd

Naphtha hydrotreater - 50 kbpd

Distillate hydrotreater - 116.5 kbpd

FCC naphtha hydrotreater - 25 kbpd

Alkylation - 13.2 kbpd

C5/C6 Isomerization - 9.8 kbpd

Oxygenates plant - 1.1 kbpd

Base oil plant - 6 kpd

Asphalt plant - 15 kbpd

Location

Tierra Blanca, Bellavista, 36730 Salamanca, Gto., Mexico

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Refinery history

1950 - Refinery opens with capacity of 30 kb/d

1955 - Lubes plant added

1970 - Expanded to 100 kb/d

1995 - MTBE plant added