Oil refinery closures, cleaner fuels and security of supply
- Voltage: 220 V/380 V/440 V
Power (W): Capacity - Dimension (L*W*H): Depends on capacity, Depends of capacity
- Weight: Depends on capacity
Certification: ISO9001 - Steam consumption: 450 kg/T
Oil content Residual bleaching earth: Less than 35% - Color: Based on cooking oil processing machine
- Crude oil moisture and volatile matter: Less than 0.30%
- Article: Cooking seed solvent extraction plant
The one liquid fuels related story that attracted attention in the local media was the temporary closure of an inland oil refinery due to delays in crude oil supplies. The refinery is owned by ...
bpSA (Pty) Ltd agrees to the sale of its 50% ownership of
- Voltage: 230-380-430
- Power (W): 40kw/h
- Dimension (L*W*H): 20m*16m*15m
- Weight: 30 tons
- Capacity: 30-1000 tons
- Squeeze impurities in crude oil: 0.01%
- Grade of vacuum: high vacuum
- Odor: natural oil smell
- Function: extract oil from the seed
- Press the residue into cake: less than 5%
- Type of machinery: oil machinery
Since pausing refinery operations, SAPREF has continued to service the SDSA and bpSA market fuels requirements via imported fuels. bpSA bp has operated in South Africa for 100 years, pursuing a range of interests from oil and gas exploration, crude oil importation and refining to the distribution and marketing of gas and refined products ...
S.Africa's Engen refinery to be converted into a storage
- Production capacity: 100%
- Model number: Doing 1st series Palm Bean Oil Extraction Equipment
- Voltage: 380V
- Power (W): according to capacity
- Dimension (L*W*H): various according to capacity
- Weight: changes according to capacity
- Certification: CE and ISO
- Raw material: Palm
- Product: Equipment for palm oil extraction | soybean oil extraction plant
- Solvent name: n-hexane
- Capacity: 5T to 2000T Palm bean oil extraction equipment
- Palm oil content: about 40%
- Oil residue: less than 1%
- Function: obtaining palm oil
- Manufacturing experience: 19 years of experience in the field of edible oil
- Equipment material: stainless steel and carbon steel
South Africa's oldest crude oil refinery, the 120,000 barrel per day plant operated by Engen (Enref), will be converted into a new storage facility because the refinery is no longer sustainable in ...
South Africa’s largest oil refinery sold for a few cents
- Production capacity: 200~400 kg/h
- Model number: 6YL-130 1019
- Voltage: 220 V/380 V
- Power (W): 20 KW
- Dimension (L*W*H): 2200*1600*2150mm
- Weight: 1300KG
- Certification: ISO9001
- Overseas installation: Yes
- Model: 6YL series
- Operation: easy operation and energy saving
- Warranty: 1 year
- Installation: guided by engineers
- After-sales service: Yes
- Feature: residual is less than 8%
- Item: Press Integrated cooking oil
The Sapref refinery was commissioned (began operating) in 1964 in the port city of Durban. It contributed 35% of South Africa’s refinery capacity and refined 180,000 barrels of imported crude ...
Permanent closure of South Africa’s oldest refinery to boost
- Production capacity:500Kg/day
- Voltage:220V/380V/440V
- Dimension (L*W*H):1500*680*1400mm
- Weight: 140 KG
- Main components:Engine, Motor
- Oil type: Flax seed oil, Rap seed oil, Tea seed oil , Basil oil, SESAME OIL, Pine nut oil, Sunflower seed nut oil, OLIVE OIL, Oil
- > Raw material:Stainless steel
- Application:refining machine of edible oil
- Color:Customer request
- Capacity:0.5 tons per day
- Function:Degumming and bleaching
- Advantage : Simple operation, high performance, low consumption
- Automatic classification: Fully automatic
- Main parts: degumming pot, blanching pot, motors
- Oil purity: more than 99.8%
Refinery closures and vaccines push product tanker recovery ahead of crude. South Africa’s oldest refinery had accounted for about 17% of the country’s fuel production before it was shut after ...
- Who owns the SAPREF refinery in Durban?
- Image: Supplied The state-owned Central Energy Fund (CEF), which comes under the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE), has bought the Sapref refinery precinct in Durban for R1. Sapref, South Africa’s largest refinery, was jointly owned by oil majors BP and Shell.
- Is Natref a surviving oil refinery in South Africa?
- Natref is the last surviving oil refinery in South Africa. Three others were closed in the past two years. These refinery closures and the possible permanent closure of the Natref refinery are shots fired in the long running contestation between the oil refiners and the government, which has been trying to introduce cleaner fuels specifications.
- When did the SAPREF refinery open?
- The Sapref refinery was commissioned (began operating) in 1964 in the port city of Durban. It contributed 35% of South Africa’s refinery capacity and refined 180,000 barrels of imported crude oil per day. It was South Africa’s biggest refinery, until it was temporarily closed in 2022 after floods damaged the plant. It never reopened.
- Which Durban refineries have made good on their threats?
- In the latest round, the two Durban refineries made good on their threats. Engen (Petronas) in 2020, following an explosion and fire, and Sapref (Shell and BP) after its temporary closure during the insurrection in July 2021. Natref appears to be playing a waiting game on the government’s latest deadline, which has been shifted from 2023 to 2027.