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18process units, 3,100 finished products by marine tankers up to 150,000
equipment items, 60,000 tons dead weight.
tons of piping, 15,000,000 The refinery will import 132 MW from the national
cubic meters of earthworks, grid.
400,000 m3 of concrete, The refinery site is adjacent to the Petkim

70,000 tons of steel structures Petrochemical Complex, which will import naphtha

are just some of the figures relating to the new and mixed xylenes directly and supply water and

grassroots refinery in Turkey that STAR RAFINERI some other utilities to the refinery.

A.Ş. plans to design, construct, and operate. The The total surface occupied by the refinery will be
refinery, known as “STAR Refinery” (STAR) will be around 180 hectares (370 hectares fenced) with

located in Aliağa near Izmir on the Aegean Sea and challenging site geographies. The hill side plot
during the project phase space allocated for
will be referred to as the Technology for the main process units the refinery required
Socar Turkey Aegean has been selected from reputable significant excavation
Refinery Project. licensors and the refinery is high and backfilling to provide
The refinery will process conversion using hydrocracking and level ground for the
10 million tons/year coking to achieve an effective zero fuel process units and tank
(214,000 bbl/sd) of mid farms. This has resulted
gravity sour crude oil oil yield, with the majority of products in 13 terraces, with a
like Azeri Light, Kirkuk being high value transportation fuels maximum difference of
and Urals. Technology and petrochemical feedstocks. 75 m and the creation
for the main process of a reclaimed area

units has been selected of approximately 9

from reputable licensors and the refinery is high hectares into the sea in proximity of the marine

conversion using hydrocracking and coking to facilities. The refinery is located in high risk seismic

achieve an effective zero fuel oil yield, with the region, which required special design solutions

1 - Aerial view of the site majority of products being high value transportation including massive containment (gabion) walls, soil

fuels and petrochemical feed-stocks. anchors and soil nailing.

In 2018, STAR will commence delivering to national

and international markets 4,6 million tons per

The project executionyear of Euro 6 diesel, 1,6 million tons per year
of kerosene as jet fuel as well as 1,6 million tons Between 2010-2011 a Front End Engineering

per year of naphtha for the Turkish petrochemical Design (FEED) package was prepared by

industry, with no fuel oil production. Amec Foster Wheeler so that the package was

The refinery will have 11 licensed and 7 open art sufficiently defined for lump sum bidding by

processing units with utilities and off-sites, including EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction)

3 jetties and loading facilities for the export of contractors.

Fig. 2 - Gabion walls

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