Repsol A Coruna Refinery — Spain

Repsol A Coruna Refinery is a refinery in Spain. Its listed capacity is 120,000 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 Repsol. By capacity it ranks #7 among 9 oil refineries in Spain. It emits about 1,400,049 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 2.9% of the CO₂e from the 91 facilities in Spain that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is 36% above the national median for this sector.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3144119.

In context: how this facility compares

At 120,000 BBL per day, Repsol A Coruna Refinery is below the median refinery in Spain (186,000 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 1,400,049 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 Spain

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

Operator

Operated by Repsol. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Repsol A Coruna Refinery sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate zone (Köppen Csb), at 43.4°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 1367 W/m² to ambient — roughly 1.05× 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 #7 largest of 9 oil refineries in Spain by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

• ALCOA INESPAL, S.A. - LA CORUÑA · Metals Plant · 112,000 t CO₂
• Megasa Siderúrgica Narón steel plant · Steel Plant · 70,159 t CO₂
• Piensos Nanfor · Food & Beverage
• FERROATLANTICA-DUMBRIA · Metals Plant · 207,000 t CO₂
• XALLAS ELECTRICIDAD Y ALEACIONES, SAU-DUMBRIA · Metals Plant · 150,000 t CO₂
• FERROATLANTICA-CEE · Metals Plant · 144,000 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 43.35093, -8.44248. View on OpenStreetMap.

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