Puma Energy Acajutla Refinery — El Salvador

Puma Energy Acajutla Refinery is a refinery in El Salvador. Its listed capacity is 22,000 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 emits about 94,476 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 6.9% of the CO₂e from the 3 facilities in El Salvador that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is 50% below the national median for this sector.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3143879.

In context: how this facility compares

At 22,000 BBL per day, Puma Energy Acajutla Refinery is around the median refinery in El Salvador (22,000 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 94,476 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.

Local climate

Puma Energy Acajutla Refinery sits in a tropical savanna climate zone (Köppen Aw), at 13.6°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 an aggressive, high-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C5 — Very high), with marine salt corrosion the leading environmental stress.

In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1232 W/m² to ambient — roughly 0.95× 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

• Maya Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 614,387 t CO₂
• El Ronco Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 658,646 t CO₂
• Cemento Ultracem Esquintla Plant · Cement Plant · 109,634 t CO₂
• AG Sidegua Masagua steel plant · Steel Plant · 19,957 t CO₂
• San Miguel Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 805,530 t CO₂
• San Gabriel Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 604,834 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 13.56718, -89.82771. View on OpenStreetMap.

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