Galp Energia Sines Refinery — Portugal

Galp Energia Sines Refinery is a refinery in Portugal. Its listed capacity is 226,000 BBL per day. Refineries heat, fractionate and chemically transform crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through energy-intensive distillation and cracking — extremely demanding on steam generation and heat recovery. It is operated by Galp. It emits about 2,497,426 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 17% of the CO₂e from the 29 facilities in Portugal that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is 28% above the national median for this sector.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3144062.

In context: how this facility compares

At 226,000 BBL per day, Galp Energia Sines Refinery is around the median refinery in Portugal (226,000 BBL per day). Subsector: oil-and-gas-refining. As refinery, it requires high process heat (typically 200–600°C) for its core industrial operations, supplied by boilers, furnaces or direct combustion. Refineries heat, fractionate and chemically transform crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through energy-intensive distillation and cracking — extremely demanding on steam generation and heat recovery.

Capacity & CO₂-intensity comparison computed from Climate TRACE industrial facilities data; sector role based on engineering reference.

What 2,497,426 t CO₂e a year looks like

This facility's estimated annual CO₂e (Climate TRACE, modelled) in everyday equivalents from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies calculator:

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

Operator

Operated by Galp. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Galp Energia Sines Refinery sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate zone (Köppen Csa), at 38.0°N in the northern hemisphere.

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

Site climate & environmental severity

This site sits in a corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), with marine corrosion the leading environmental stress.

In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1341 W/m² to ambient — roughly 1.03× the loss at a 20 °C reference. Reference-surface calculation at a 150 °C surface from WorldClim climate normals (ASTM C680 / ISO 12241) — an indicative per-climate comparison, not a measurement of this site’s specific equipment. Open method dataset: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20787408 (CC BY 4.0).

Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.

How it compares & nearby sites

Nearby industrial sites

• Repsol SA , Sines · Petrochemical · 535,047 t CO₂
• The Navigator Company - Setúbal Mill · Pulp & Paper Mill · 298,323 t CO₂
• Outao Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 835,160 t CO₂
• Parmalat Portugal - Produtos Alimentares, Lda (Ci) · Food & Beverage
• SN SEIXAL Siderurgia Nacional steel plant · Steel Plant · 127,032 t CO₂
• Sovena Oilseeds Portugal, S.A. (Ci) · Food & Beverage

Location

Coordinates 37.96134, -8.81138. View on OpenStreetMap.

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