Varo Cressier Refinery

Varo Cressier Refinery is a refinery in Switzerland with a reported capacity of 68,000 BBL per day. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming. It is operated by Varo Energy BV. It emits about 607,626 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 141,638 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 6% above the median refinery.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3144131.

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

Con 68,000 BBL per day, Varo Cressier Refinery está alrededor de la mediana de refinery en Switzerland (68,000 BBL per day). 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.

What 607,626 t CO₂e a year looks like

This facility's reported annual CO₂e in the everyday equivalents from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies calculator:

Equivalencies: US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies. Emissions: Climate TRACE.

Operator

Operated by Varo Energy BV. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Varo Cressier Refinery sits in a temperate oceanic climate zone (Köppen Cfb), at 47.0°N in the northern hemisphere.

Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

How it compares & nearby sites

Nearby industrial sites

• Cornaux Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 92,839 t CO₂
• Schweizer Zucker Ag / Werk Aarberg · Food & Beverage · 53,324 t CO₂
• Pery La Heutte Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 215,365 t CO₂
• Estavayer Lait Sa · Food & Beverage · 5,861 t CO₂
• Cremo Sa · Food & Beverage · 8,319 t CO₂
• Emmi Schweiz Ag / Betrieb Ostermundigen · Food & Beverage · 53,324 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 47.04148, 7.03633. View on OpenStreetMap.

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