20.01.2023The ORLEN Group is going to invest more than PLN 500 million in the Gdańsk refinery to improve the safety and security of product supply. A transshipment marine terminal will be built on the refinery wharf, which will enable the handling of more than one million tonnes of products, including base oils, marine fuels or fuel bio additives, starting from 2025. The project’s contractor will be a consortium of companies led by the NDI Group of Sopot. Also, a related project is concurrently being carried out in Gdańsk to construct a cutting-edge hydrocracked base oil unit (HBO), valued at more than PLN 1.4 billion..Completion of the HBO project, initiated in 2021, will improve the economics of crude processing. Launching a brand new product category, namely state-of-the-art Group II base oils, on the Polish and foreign markets will significantly bolster the Group’s competitiveness. The unit is going to produce over 400 thousand tonnes of those oils and several dozen thousand tonnes of fuel intermediates.The terminal will enable loading and unloading of components and biocomponents for biofuels (biodiesel and biogasolines) such as: FAME, i.e., bioesters – fatty acid methyl esters derived from vegetable oils and used as a component of diesel oil; UCOME, i.e., next-generation biofuels, made from waste products such as used cooking oil; methyl tert-butylether (MTBE) – an organic component of gasolines, increasing their octane number, as well as xylenes used in petrochemical processes and low-sulfur marine fuels (MGO and RMD).The terminal will also play a key role in shipping base oils from another, larger project, whose timeline is closely correlated to the construction of the terminal – a hydrocracked base oil (HBO) unit which is being built in Gdańsk, and whose construction started in late 2021. Both projects are scheduled for completion by mid-2025. The heart of the HBO project is a catalytic dewaxing/hydrofinishing (DW/HDF) unit, which will consist of several sections: reactor, hydrogen compression and hydrogen circulation, light product separation and liquid product distillation. The HBO unit at the Gdańsk refinery will enable the production of high-quality oils..Click the link below to read the full press release.ORLEN invests in logistics and production assets in Gdańsk
20.01.2023The ORLEN Group is going to invest more than PLN 500 million in the Gdańsk refinery to improve the safety and security of product supply. A transshipment marine terminal will be built on the refinery wharf, which will enable the handling of more than one million tonnes of products, including base oils, marine fuels or fuel bio additives, starting from 2025. The project’s contractor will be a consortium of companies led by the NDI Group of Sopot. Also, a related project is concurrently being carried out in Gdańsk to construct a cutting-edge hydrocracked base oil unit (HBO), valued at more than PLN 1.4 billion..Completion of the HBO project, initiated in 2021, will improve the economics of crude processing. Launching a brand new product category, namely state-of-the-art Group II base oils, on the Polish and foreign markets will significantly bolster the Group’s competitiveness. The unit is going to produce over 400 thousand tonnes of those oils and several dozen thousand tonnes of fuel intermediates.The terminal will enable loading and unloading of components and biocomponents for biofuels (biodiesel and biogasolines) such as: FAME, i.e., bioesters – fatty acid methyl esters derived from vegetable oils and used as a component of diesel oil; UCOME, i.e., next-generation biofuels, made from waste products such as used cooking oil; methyl tert-butylether (MTBE) – an organic component of gasolines, increasing their octane number, as well as xylenes used in petrochemical processes and low-sulfur marine fuels (MGO and RMD).The terminal will also play a key role in shipping base oils from another, larger project, whose timeline is closely correlated to the construction of the terminal – a hydrocracked base oil (HBO) unit which is being built in Gdańsk, and whose construction started in late 2021. Both projects are scheduled for completion by mid-2025. The heart of the HBO project is a catalytic dewaxing/hydrofinishing (DW/HDF) unit, which will consist of several sections: reactor, hydrogen compression and hydrogen circulation, light product separation and liquid product distillation. The HBO unit at the Gdańsk refinery will enable the production of high-quality oils..Click the link below to read the full press release.ORLEN invests in logistics and production assets in Gdańsk
