MOL Szazhalombatta Refinery — Hungary

MOL Szazhalombatta Refinery is a refinery in Hungary. Its listed capacity is 165,000 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 MOL Group. It emits about 1,976,623 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 27% of the CO₂e from the 16 facilities in Hungary that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is 39% above the national median for this sector.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1753587.

In context: how this facility compares

At 165,000 BBL per day, MOL Szazhalombatta Refinery is around the median refinery in Hungary (165,000 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 1,976,623 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 MOL Group. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

MOL Szazhalombatta Refinery sits in a temperate oceanic climate zone (Köppen Cfb), at 47.3°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 mild atmospheric environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C2 — Low), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.

In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1391 W/m² to ambient — roughly 1.07× 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

• Hungrana Kft. · Food & Beverage · 295,989 t CO₂
• Arconic-Köfém Kft. · Metals Plant · 114,000 t CO₂
• Liberty Steel Dunaferr Dunaújváros steel plant · Steel Plant · 348,000 t CO₂
• Dunacell Kft. Pulp Mill · Pulp & Paper Mill · 13,944 t CO₂
• Calmit Hungária Kft. · Lime Plant · 100,563 t CO₂
• Miskolc Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 997,108 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 47.28644, 18.89803. View on OpenStreetMap.

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