Project Profile
Value: Undisclosed
Location: South Durban Basin, South Africa
Refining capacity: 8.5 million tons a year
Crude oil processing capacity: 180,000 and 190,000 barrels per day
Start-up Year: -
A joint venture between Shell SA Refining and BP Southern Africa, SAPREF is Southern Africa’s largest crude oil refinery, with a refining capacity of 8.5 million tons a year. The refinery has been in operation for 47 years. Building work on the SAPREF refinery started in 1960 and the first staff members were employed in June 1963. SAPREF’s facilities are of national strategic importance. They include the refinery in the South Durban Basin (SDB), storage facilities at the harbour (Island View), a Single Buoy Mooring (SBM) where tankers offload about 78% of South Africa’s crude oil imports and joint bunkering services operated on behalf of various petroleum companies. The refinery manufactures a variety of petroleum products, including petrol, diesel, paraffin, aviation fuel, liquid petroleum gas, base oil, solvents and marine fuel oil. SAPREF has a design capacity to process between 180,000 and 190,000 barrels per day depending on the type of crude oil processed. In 2010 SAPREF processed 7.54 million tons of crude, thereby producing approximately 28% marine fuel oil and specialties, 25% petrol and 40% diesel and jet fuel. SAPREF launched the Clean Fuels II Project, a project which will enable a substantial upgrade of the refinery.
Operators:
South African Petroleum Refineries - SAPREF (Shell SA Refining and BP Southern Africa): Operator with 100% interest
Contractors:
Flour Corporation: FEED contract