The Ingolstadt Refinery

The Ingolstadt Refinery is located on a 128-hectare site in Ingolstadt, Germany approximately 80 kilometers north of Munich. It was originally commissioned in 1963 by ExxonMobil CE and was purchased by Petroplus in 2007. The site is an integrated atmospheric-vacuum distillation, fluid catalytic cracking refinery with a total throughput capacity of 110,000 barrels per day.

Product Supply and Distribution

Crude oil supply arrives via the TAL pipeline system, a 753 kilometer pipeline connection from the marine shipping terminal in Trieste, Italy. Products are shipped from the on-site truck-loading rack and railcar-loading facilities. This enables a stable distribution into the local markets. Light and middle distillates such as gasoline, diesel, blended diesel and jet fuel are sold predominantly in Germany and Austria. We typically sell the majority of our output to oil majors, resellers, industry and retail petrol stations.

Technical aspects

The site is an atmospheric/vacuum distillation refinery with two crude oil trains and an fluid catalytic cracking conversion unit. From 2000 to 2003, it was modified by installing a hydrogen plant, a catalytic naphtha splitter and other improvements to, among other things, reduce fuel sulfur content. The Ingolstadt Refinery can process a range of sweet crude oils and also processes medium as well as some heavy crude oils to produce bitumen, generally during the road paving season in Germany and Austria. The Ingolstadt Refinery has a Nelson Complexity of 7.3