Volgograd Refinery

Volgograd Refinery is a refinery in Russia with a reported capacity of 300,000 BBL per day. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming. It is operated by Lukoil. By capacity it ranks #7 of 10 oil refineries tracked in Russia.

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

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

Con 300,000 BBL per day, Volgograd Refinery está alrededor de la mediana de refinery en Russia (340,000 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.

Capacity vs largest oil refineries in Russia

Reported capacity (BBL per day), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).

Operator

Operated by Lukoil. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Volgograd Refinery sits in a hot-summer humid continental climate zone (Köppen Dfa), at 48.6°N in the northern hemisphere.

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

How it compares & nearby sites

The #7 largest of 10 oil refineries in Russia by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• VMK Red October steel plant · Steel Plant · 29,505 t CO₂
• LUKOIL Volgograd Refinery · Refinery · 3,366,582 t CO₂
• Volgograd aluminium plant · Aluminium Smelter · 159,256 t CO₂
• Volzhsky Pipe Plant · Steel Plant · 179,331 t CO₂
• Sebryakovsky Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 2,031,243 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 48.65, 44.43. View on OpenStreetMap.

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