Orlen Unipetrol Litvinov Refinery — Czechia

Orlen Unipetrol Litvinov Refinery is a refinery in Czechia. Its listed capacity is 110,000 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 Orlen Unipetrol. By capacity it ranks #1 among 2 oil refineries in Czechia. It emits about 1,150,974 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 12% of the CO₂e from the 16 facilities in Czechia that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is 22% above the national median for this sector.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-712382.

Measured and modelled emissions reconciliation

This facility is linked to EUTL ID CZ_260 for reporting year 2023. The official source reports 404,764 t CO2; Climate TRACE models 1,150,974 t CO2e.

Limits of this comparison

• Measured CO2 and modelled CO2e are not identical accounting constructs.
• The crosswalk is an entity match, not proof that reporting boundaries are identical.
• The reporting year is shown explicitly and values are not extrapolated to the current year.

Official EUTL source · Download this reconciliation: CSV · JSON with provenance.

In context: how this facility compares

At 110,000 BBL per day, Orlen Unipetrol Litvinov Refinery is around the median refinery in Czechia (110,000 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 1,150,974 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.

Capacity vs largest oil refineries in Czechia

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

Operator

Operated by Orlen Unipetrol. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Orlen Unipetrol Litvinov Refinery sits in a temperate oceanic climate zone (Köppen Cfb), at 50.6°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 1410 W/m² to ambient — roughly 1.08× 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

The #1 largest of 2 oil refineries in Czechia by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

• Unipetrol, Litvinov · Petrochemical · 650,452 t CO₂
• CZE-Most_ammonia · Chemical Plant · 277,200 t CO₂
• Cizkovice Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 389,139 t CO₂
• Glencore Agriculture Czech S.R.O. · Food & Beverage
• GRuNPERGA Papier Pulp Mill · Pulp & Paper Mill · 31,384 t CO₂
• Procházka Spol. S R. O. · Food & Beverage

Location

Coordinates 50.56326, 13.6123. View on OpenStreetMap.

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