crude oil refining machine oil refining plant in cape town

                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
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  • How does the crude oil reach the Cape Town refinery?
  • Crude oil arrives by oil tanker in Saldanha Bay for discharge and is then transported to Cape Town refinery via pipeline. Our team is then responsible for converting the crude oil into final products including LPG, petrol, jet fuel, diesel and fuel oil.
  • Will reopening Cape Town refinery help South Africa secure petroleum supplies?
  • Restarting the Cape Town refinery, the country's third largest and offline since an explosion in 2020 killed two workers, will help net importer South Africa secure petroleum supplies as several other refineries in the country look to shut down permanently.
  • Will South Africa reopen its oil refinery?
  • The commitment to reopen the operation bucks the trend in South Africa where oil and gas majors are opting to close refineries rather than invest in refurbishing and upgrading them, especially in light of incoming clean fuel regulations.
  • How does crude oil refinery work?
  • Crude oil refinery begins in the distillation towers, where crude oil is separated into various components. These components are then further processed and treated using methods such as hydrotreating, cracking, and reforming to produce final products.
  • Which process units are used in crude oil refinery?
  • A significant portion of the components separated from the crude oil need to be further processed using catalysts to convert low value product to high value product. Some of the process units used at the refinery are: Fluidised Catalytic Cracking Unit (FCC) which cracks the heavy product into LPG, petrol and diesel.
  • What happened to Sasol & Total's Natref Refinery?
  • Sasol and Total¡¯s Natref refinery is also on the chopping block as the two mull selling or closing the operation. Astron¡¯s refinery ¨C formerly known as Calref and which Glencore acquired with all Chevron¡¯s SA assets in 2019 ¨C has been offline ever since mid-2020 when a deadly fire caused the plant to shut.