Refinery in France. Approximate location 48.59059, 2.94514.
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Total Grandpuits Refinery is a refinery in France. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming. It is operated by TotalEnergies SE.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3143888.
Subsector: oil-and-gas-refining. Como refinery, requiere calor de proceso intenso (típicamente 200–600°C) para sus operaciones industriales centrales — calor que debe ser suministrado por calderas, hornos o combustión directa, y las pérdidas a través de recipientes y tuberías sin aislar representan combustible desperdiciado. El aislamiento modular desmontable puede reducir esas pérdidas en un 80–96%, enfriando superficies a ≤45°C, con amortización a menudo inferior a 2 años. Las refinerías calientan, fraccionan y transforman químicamente el petróleo crudo en combustibles y materias primas petroquímicas mediante destilación y craqueo que consumen mucha energía — extremadamente exigentes en generación de vapor y recuperación de calor.
Comparación de capacidad e intensidad de CO₂ calculada a partir de datos de instalaciones industriales de Climate TRACE; papel del sector basado en referencia de ingeniería.
Reported capacity (BBL per day), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Operated by TotalEnergies SE. All facilities by this operator →
Total Grandpuits Refinery sits in a temperate oceanic climate zone (Köppen Cfb), at 48.6°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
Coordinates 48.59059, 2.94514. View on OpenStreetMap.
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Total Grandpuits Refinery is a refinery in France. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming.
Total Grandpuits Refinery is in France, near coordinates 48.59059, 2.94514.
Total Grandpuits Refinery is operated by TotalEnergies SE.