Taranto Refinery

The refinery has balanced refining capacity of 120 kbbl/d and a conversion index of 72%. This refinery can process a wide range of crudes and other feedstock. It principally produces fuels for automotive use and residential heating purposes for the Southern Italian markets. Besides its primary distillation plants and relevant facilities, including two units for the desulfurization of middle distillates, this refinery contains a two-stage thermal conversion plant (visbreaking/thermal cracking) and an RHU conversion plant for the conversion of high sulfur content residues into valuable products and high-quality feedstock for the catalytic cracking unit. It processes most of the oil produced in Eni's Val d'Agri fields carried to Taranto through the Monte Alpi pipeline (in 2010 a total of 1.8 mmtonnes of this oil were processed). A new hydro-cracking unit integrated with the RHU facility started production in 2010 with a capacity of 17 kbbl/d.