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REFINERY CAPACITY [9 records]

Record 1 2021-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial Utilization (Oil and Natural Gas)
CONT

Refiners generally strive to increase output levels through improvements to internal processes and through ongoing minor investments. This results in small increases in refinery capacity, referred to as capacity creep.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Exploitation commerciale (Pétrole et gaz naturel)
DEF

Augmentation de la capacité d'une installation de raffinage, induite par des modifications de cette installation ou de ses conditions de fonctionnement.

CONT

Les raffineurs s'efforcent généralement d'accroître leurs rendements en améliorant leurs procédés et en apportant régulièrement des améliorations mineures à leurs installations. Il en résulte de faibles gains de capacité, que l'on désigne «étirement de la capacité».

OBS

bonus de capacité : terme et définition publiés au Journal officiel de la République française le 3 avril 2014.

Spanish

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Record 2 2017-04-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Refining
CONT

For crude oil processing business, the design crude oil processing capacity is 4 million tons per year. In 1999, the processed crude oil totaled 2.9134 million tons, in which the imported oil was 2.2362 million tons and the stock oil was 121.2 thousand tons.

CONT

The refinery was constructed in the early 1950's and placed on stream October 1953 with a design crude oil capacity of 15, 000 barrels per day. Over the following years facilities have been added and the current crude oil capacity is 80, 000 barrels per day...

CONT

Nigeria’s four refineries have a combined nameplate capacity of 438,750 bbl/d ...

CONT

1994 Commissioning of the new visbreaker and kerosene hydrotreater units. Nominal crude capacity is now 104,000 bpd.

OBS

nameplate capacity : When applied to a refinery, it is the nominal design crude oil processing capacity of a refinery, normally expressed in barrels of crude oil per day.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Raffinage du pétrole
DEF

Unité de référence correspondant à la quantité de pétrole brut que peut traiter une raffinerie en un laps de temps donné (par exemple des barils par jour).

CONT

Réputée l'une des plus efficaces de l'industrie pétrolière, la raffinerie de McKee, située au cœur de l'enclave du Texas, est la plus grande raffinerie entre la côte du golfe et la côte Ouest. De conception moderne et avec une capacité nominale de traitement de brut de 140 000 barils par jour, elle approvisionne les marchés de l'Arizona, du Colorado, du Nouveau Mexique, de l'Oklahoma et du Texas en produits de grande valeur, notamment l'essence, le diesel et le carburéacteur.

Spanish

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Record 3 2005-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Waste Management
  • Mining Wastes
  • Radioactive Ores (Mining)
CONT

Uranium Recycle Project. Cameco is seeking approval for remilling two recyclable products from the Blind River refinery and Port Hope conversion facilities in Ontario, at its Key Lake operation in northern Saskatchewan. This approval would constitute a change to the mill feed component of the Key Lake operation. The purpose of remilling is to recover the uranium content of the uranium bearing products which are in a dry powdered form similar to the material that is fed into one stage of the milling process called the "leach circuit. "The recyclable products contain approximately 4% uranium and would be used to produce the licensed capacity of some 28 million pounds of U3O8. The majority of the uranium in these recyclable products is from Saskatchewan mines.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des déchets
  • Déchets miniers
  • Minerais radioactifs (Mines métalliques)
CONT

Un projet de recyclage de sous-produits uranifères provenant de la raffinerie et des usines de conversion de Cameco à Key Lake fait présentement l'objet d'un examen préalable aux termes de la LCEE [Loi canadienne sur l'évaluation environnementale].

Spanish

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Record 4 2005-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ore Extraction and Transport
  • Economic Geology
  • Bauxite Mining
CONT

Alcoa’s current capacity of 6.7 m tonnes a year makes it the largest single source of alumina in the world, supplying 16% of the 41 m tonnes (smelter grade plus chemicals feedstock) consumed worldwide in 1996. ... Following the completion of the third reduction line in late 1997 at Boyne Island, the company will have an aluminium entitlement in excess of 650 000 tpa.

CONT

Nalco has chalked out an ambitious expansion plan in two phases... Phase I of the programme which has received approval from the Cabinet involves doubling of bauxite mining capacity to 4. 8 m tpa, increase in alumina refinery capacity to 1. 6 m tpa.

Key term(s)
  • tonne per year
  • tonne a year
  • ton per annum
  • ton per year
  • tons per year
  • ton a year
  • tons a year
  • tonnes per annum
  • tonne per annum

French

Domaine(s)
  • Extraction et transport du minerai
  • Géologie économique
  • Mines de bauxite
Key term(s)
  • tonne par an

Spanish

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Record 5 2004-12-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Establishments
  • Sugar Industry
CONT

Racecourse Refinery is Australia's newest and most advanced sugar refinery. [It] has a rated capacity of 50 tonnes per hour, or about 350, 000 tonnes per annum. The refining process itself is conventional with the following main operations : affination, phosphatation and filtration, granular carbon decolourisation, crystallisation, centrifuging and drying.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Établissements industriels
  • Sucrerie (Industrie de l'alimentation)
DEF

Établissement où l'on raffine le sucre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Establecimientos industriales
  • Industria azucarera
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Record 6 2004-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Refining
CONT

Hyundai Corporation and Hyundai Engineering Co., Ltd. jointly obtained oil refinery plant order worth US$12 million from Petron of the Philippines on a turnkey basis. Hyundai will repair the light thermal catalytic cracking unit to capacity of 15, 000 BPSD [barrels per stream day] and newly construct mixed xylene unit with the capacity of 7, 200 BPSD.

OBS

Hyundai, recently undertaking the civil engineering role in building a chemical plant for a Petron TCCU [Thermofor catalytic cracking unit] & MX [mixed xylene] project, also plans to actively take part in the construction of other Philippine chemical plants.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Raffinage du pétrole
OBS

unité mixte de xylène : terme proposé sur le modèle de «unité de paraxylène», attesté dans l'Internet. (Voir justification qui suit.)

OBS

Coastal : projet conjoint de 200 millions de dollars avec SGF Chimie pour le redémarrage de son unité de paraxylène de Montréal-Est; [...]

Spanish

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Record 7 2004-05-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Production
  • Petroleum Distillation
CONT

It is expected that new refinery conversion capacity will have to be added to provide expanded markets for the increasing volumes of blended bitumen

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production pétrolière
  • Distillation du pétrole
CONT

Les raffineries devront augmenter leur capacité de transformation pour pouvoir recevoir des volumes croissants de bitume fluidifié.

Spanish

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Record 8 2001-12-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Refining
  • Commercial and Other Bodies (Law)
DEF

A company which leases, purchases or shares crude oil processing capacity in another company's refinery in Eastern Canada to process its own crude oil.

OBS

As opposed to "processor."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Raffinage du pétrole
  • Organismes commerciaux ou non (Droit)
OBS

1) Manuel des méthodes de répartition du pétrole brut. Législation des produits du pétrole. 2) Opérations de traitement à façon de pétrole brut. Les raffineries peuvent traiter du pétrole brut à façon pour le compte de sociétés étrangères [...] La «company» dont il est question n'a pas nécessairement la structure juridique d'une société.

Spanish

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Record 9 1985-12-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Studies and Analyses
CONT

The petroleum refining industry was analyzed on a regional basis using a refinery simulator. A single refinery for each region having a capacity equal to the total refinery capacity in the regions(Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, Western) was used to determine the refining modifications required(if any) for each case.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Études et analyses environnementales

Spanish

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