Shell Pernis Refinery — Netherlands

Shell Pernis Refinery is a refinery in Netherlands. Its listed capacity is 447,000 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 Shell PLC. By capacity it ranks #1 among 4 oil refineries in Netherlands. It emits about 5,007,588 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 14% of the CO₂e from the 25 facilities in Netherlands that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is 30% above the national median for this sector.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3144033.

In context: how this facility compares

At 447,000 BBL per day, Shell Pernis Refinery is well above the median refinery in Netherlands (192,000 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 5,007,588 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 Netherlands

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

Operator

Operated by Shell PLC. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Shell Pernis Refinery sits in a temperate oceanic climate zone (Köppen Cfb), at 51.9°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 humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.

In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1401 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 4 oil refineries in Netherlands by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

• ExxonMobil Botlek Rotterdam Refinery · Refinery · 1,859,980 t CO₂
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• Vitol Processing Rotterdam Refinery · Refinery · 665,990 t CO₂
• Archer Daniels Midland Europoort Bv (Adm) · Food & Beverage · 153,291 t CO₂
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Location

Coordinates 51.8836, 4.36813. View on OpenStreetMap.

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