SHELL PERNIS
EUROPE’S
BIGGEST REFINERY
Across 50 different plants, highly trained men and
2,000
women work together to keep
the Pernis refinery in Rotterdam
running safely and efficiently1
1,000x
They work on a site
covering 550 hectares1
Together, the team helps Pernis process
tonnes of
20,000,000 crude oil
every year
At full capacity, Pernis can refine
75O
As a complex
refinery, it is
equipped to refine
LITRES both light and
heavy crude oils1
OF OIL PER SECOND 1
To do this, crude oil is heated to 350˚C
inside a huge distilling column, causing
it to vaporise and rise1
Each level in the column has its own
temperature range. The higher the level,
the lower the temperature1
As they rise, the oil vapours condense
and turn into various liquids used
to produce a range of widely distributed
products, including gasoline and diesel1
There are 730,000,000 cars, To help meet this
trucks and buses on our roads global demand,
worldwide using nearly 2 trillion litres the Pernis team
of petrol and diesel every year1 refines more than
400,000
BARRELS OF CRUDE
OIL EVERY DAY1
Energy efficiency Seven hydrodesul
programme results in equivalent
energy savings of 50.000 cars
phurasation sections
ensure the production
CO 2
off the road yearly. of cleaner fuels, and
help to significantly
reduce Pernis’
CO2 emissions.
-50.000x
KEEPING THE WORLD MOVING
Sources
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_TgIvwaxr4
2. http://www.gasification.org/uploads/eventLibrary/gtc9806p.pdf
3. h
ttp://www.shell.com/global/products-services/solutions-for-businesses/globalsolutions/about-global-solutions/
key-projects/pernis.html
