The Italian Cremona refinery is an inland refinery located in the Po valley, Italy’s most industrialized area.

Cremona is a visbreaker refinery with low degree of conversion (Visbreaker and Dewaxer) built in 1954, with an average throughput in 2009 of 2.7 million metric tons.

The refinery receives crude oil at the port of Genoa. Crude oil discharged at Genoa for Tamoil is pumped through the Genoa-Ferrera-Cremona pipeline to a storage plant at Ferrera, and then on to Cremona.

The refinery is connected to the market via pipelines, rail and roads.

Over the years, significant investments have been made by Tamoil in order to increase the capacity and efficiency of the refinery and to produce cleaner fuels.

Today, the refinery has an integrated processing system allowing it to produce a full range of products: liquefied petroleum gas, virgin naphtha for petrochemical plants, jet fuel, petrol, diesel oil, gas oil for heating systems and low sulphur fuel oil.

Cremona refinery is constantly focusing on optimizing its crude slate and product output to reduce the production of fuel oil, given the continuing declining usage within the power generation sector, Tamoil’s traditional outlet for this material.

The Cremona refinery’s overall processing capacity is approximately 95 thousand barrels per day, while its storage capacity is 100 tanks totalling approximately 900,000 cubic metres.

Additional activities have taken place in the last years to further enhance the safety and security within the refinery.