The Mineraloelraffinerie Oberrhein GmbH (MiRO) Refinery is located on the Rhine River in Karlsruhe, Germany, approximately 95 miles south of Frankfurt, Germany. MiRO is the largest refinery in Germany and operates as a joint venture in which we own an 18.75% interest. Facilities include crude distilling, naphtha reforming, fluid catalytic cracking, petroleum coking and calcining, hydrodesulfurization, isomerization, ethyl tert-butyl ether and alkylation units. MiRO produces a high percentage of transportation fuels. Other products produced include petrochemical feedstocks, home heating oil, bitumen, and anode- and fuel grade petroleum cokes. Refined petroleum products are distributed to customers in Germany, Switzerland, France, and Austria by truck, railcar and barge.
Clean Product Yield Capability: 87%
Nelson Complexity Factor: 7.7
Capacities
Distillates Production: 27 MBD*
Crude Throughput: 58 MBD
Gasolines Production: 25 MBD*
Total Throughput: 61 MBD
* Clean product capacities are maximum rates for each clean product category, independent of each other. They are not additive when calculating the clean product yield capability for each refinery.
(MBD) Thousand Barrels Per Day
HISTORY: Two separate sites built in 1963 (Merged to MiRO in 1996)
LOCATION: Karlsruhe, Germany
SIZE: 1,131 acres (approx.)
WORKFORCE: 1,000 employees and contractors
- Transportation fuels (gasoline, diesel and aviation fuel)
- Petrochemical feedstocks
- Home heating oil
- Bitumen and anode and fuel-grade petroleum coke
- Pipeline
- Barge
- Truck
- Rail