Tupras Aliaga Refinery

Tupras Aliaga Refinery

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TUPRAS ALIAGA REFINERY

Operated By: Tüpras Aliaga Refinery (www.tupras.com.tr)
Address: Aliaga Rafinerisi Iskelesi, Aliaga, Izmir, Türkiye
Telephone: (232) 616 12 50 - 616 10 92
Fax: (232) 616 12 49 - 616 22 49
B.A. Chart No: 1618
Location: 38 45 N; 26 53 E
Incoming tankers discharge at a “T” type oil jetty just south of the Tasli Burnu Light. The jetty runs paralel to the coastline and is approximately situated 39 49 30 N, 26 57 30 E. The outer arm of the jetty, 317 m long, is designed for crude oil tankers 100.000 DWT on the outer side and for tankers of 25.000 DWT on the inner. The outer SE arm is designed for product tankers up to 22.000 DWT an the inner berth for small tankers of up to 5.000 DWT.
The crude oil berth is roughly in the center of the NW arm and has 4 loading arms. The jetty is protected by 4 pivotal concrete buffers. The product berth is similarly in the center of the arm and is equipped with flexible hoses.
Crude oil pumping rate is about 3.000 Tons/hour
Vessels with drafts up to 16.5 meters are allowed to berth at the crude oil wharf.
Fresh water supplied by refinery by pipeline and bunkers and provisions are available through suppliers.
Nature of sea bottom: Sand
To meet the increasing petroleum products consumption of Türkiye the construction of Izmir Refinery located on the Aegean coast near Aliaga in Izmir began in 1968. While the Refinery capacity was 3.0 millions tons/year at the start-up in 1972, the capacity was increased gradually by Debottlenecking Project and an Expansion Project after which the refinery capacity reached to 10.0 millions tons in 1987.
The refinery has two atmospheric distillation and vacuum distillation units, kerosene/diesel desulphurization units, sulphur recovery unit, one unifener / reformer unit,naptha and kero swetening units as well as utility units. Izmir Refinery has also the single lube oil complex with a capacity of 300.000 tons/year in Türkiye.
Izmir Refinery is the second largest refinery of TÜPRAS and Türkiye. Curude oil and intermediate product processing capacities are given below:
36.000 m3/day Crude Units
12.000 m3/day Vacuum Units
2.400 m3/day FCC Unit
1.560 m3/day Reformer (Octane Enhancement) Unit
2.880 m3/day Desulphurizer Units (Sulphur Removal)
2.600 m3/day Hydrocraker unit
3.000 m3/day Visbreaker Unit
98 m3/day Sulphur Recovery Units in addition to above units;
2x600 m3/day Industrial Waste Water Treatment Units
1.950 m3/day Sewage Water Tretment Unit.
Pilotage: Compulsory, provided by Tüpras.
Tugging: 1 tug over 500 GT, 2 tugs over 5000 GT, 3 tugs over 25000 GT, 4 tugs over 50000 GT.
  The establisment has two tugs with 2400 HP.

 

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