Tüpraş Kırıkkale Oil Refinery
Tüpraş Kırıkkale Oil Refinery is an oil refinery in Kırıkkale, central Turkey. It is owned and operated by Tüpraş, the country's only oil refiner with four refineries.
The refinery is located on the west bank of Kızılırmak River in Hacılar town about south of Kırıkkale and about southeast of Ankara, in central Turkey. The refinery is built on a land of in a property stretching over.
The refinery became operational in 1986. It is Turkey's newest and third biggest oil refinery. With its annual crude oil refining capacity of around 5.0 million tonnes, it is a middle-sized refinery in terms of Mediterranean standards. After its initial construction, the refinery was expanded by adding the units of
hydrocraking, isomerization, diesel fuel desulfurisation and continuous catalyst regeneration reforming. Crude oil is supplied from the Botaş Ceyhan Oil Terminal using the Ceyhan-Kırıkkale Oil Pipeline. The facility has a Nelson complexity index of 6.32. Its storage capacity is 1.41 million tonnes. It has the country's biggest filling capacity for tank trucks. 865 people are employed in the facility. The refinery serves the regional markets of Ankara Province, Central Anatolia, eastern Mediterranean and eastern Black Sea regions. In 2015, a total of 3.05 million tonnes diverse petroleum products, such as liquefied petroleum gas, gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuel, asphalt base, were processed.
A project for increasing the capacity of the hydrocraker unit from is underway, which was launched in November 2017 and is scheduled to complete end 2019. A new thermal power plant will be built to replace the existing inefficient power station situated close to the refinery. The new power plant will be supplied by oil from the capacity expansion of the refinery.
