Four transportation options are under consideration to give the 230,000 b/d PCK Schwedt refinery in eastern Germany improved access to non-Soviet crude supplies.
They are:
- Laying a spur line to the trans-Alpine pipeline from Italy to western Germany via Austria.
- Laying a new spur to the oil port of Wilhelmshaven.
- Expanding the pipeline to the Baltic port of Rostock.
- Laying a new pipeline to Baltic port of Gdansk, Poland.
DEA Mineraloel AG will soon take a 37.5% interest in the former state owned East German refinery. Other interests are held by Veba Oel and a combine of Agip SpA, Total Cie. Francaise des Petroles, and Ste. Nationale Elf Aquitaine.
DEA says the partners plan to spend about 1 billion deutschemarks ($578 million) to upgrade and modernize the plant in the 1990s.
DEA also disclosed plans to upgrade three other refineries in which it holds interests.
At its 100% owned 80,000 b/d Heide refinery, DEA is in the planning stage of a 500 million deutschemark ($289 million) project to cut heavy fuel oil yield to 0.6% of plant production from 14%. Construction could start in 1993, with completion scheduled for 1995.
A similar project at the 174,000 b/d Oberrheinische Mineraloelwerke GmbH refinery at Karlsruhe, in which DEA holds a 42% interest, is expected to cost 600 million deutschemarks ($346 million).
Outlays also are planned at DEA's 100,000 b/d Union Rheinische Braunkohlen Krafstoff AG refinery at Wesseling, although details aren't disclosed.
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