Hamburg

The German Hamburg refinery (which is also referred to as the "Holborn" refinery) consists of approximately 87 hectares of land, located at the south fork of the Elbe river and seaport basin. The refinery is well placed for access by ships arriving from the North Sea, by the inland waterways of the Elbe, by motorway, and by rail, with sidings on-site and an adjoining rail yard.

A pipeline measuring 147 km in length supplies crude oil to the refinery from the North West Oil Management deep water terminal in Wilhelmshaven.
The refinery also has a dock, which can normally receive ships of up to 80,000 metric tons carrying crude oil. Other blend stocks, intermediate, and refined products are brought into the refinery on coasters and barges.

Since its acquisition in October 1987, the refinery has progressed with the modernisation of its units, which are essential to its long-term productivity.
In recent years, the construction of a new plant for deep de-sulphurisation and de-aromatisation of transportation fuels, as well as a plant for the production of hydrogen by steam reforming, has been completed.
Today, the Hamburg refinery is not only able to fulfil the European Union specifications coming into place in 2005 but can also produce high quality products for niche markets and cyclohexane for the chemical market.

A full range of refined products, i.e. liquefied petroleum gases, petrol, petrochemical grade naphtha, kerosene, diesel, heating and fuel oils are obtained.

The Hamburg refinery’s overall processing capacity is approximately 105 thousand barrels of crude per day.
In the off-sites areas of the refinery the major facilities are the tank farms, product shipping and receiving facilities, product blending systems and waste water treatment plants.