The Cartagena Refinery is an oil refinery in Cartagena, Colombia

Cartagena, Colombia

Cartagena de Indias , is a large Caribbean beach resort city on the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Coast Region and capital of Bolívar Department...

. It is operated by Refineria de Cartagena S.A. (Reficar), a subsidiary of Ecopetrol

Ecopetrol

Ecopetrol , formerly known as Empresa Colombiana de Petróleos S.A. is the largest and primary petroleum company in Colombia. Because of its size, Ecopetrol is a Fortune Global 500 company ranked 445, it belongs to the group of the 25 largest petroleum companies in the world, and it is one of the...

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History

The refinery was built by Intercol in 1956. In 1976, the refinery was purchased by Ecopetrol.

Technical features

The refinery has a capacity of 75 koilbbl/d. By 2013, the capacity will be increased to 165 koilbbl/d. The refinery consists of crude units, visbreaking units, fluid catalytic cracker, light products plants, polymerization

Polymerization

In polymer chemistry, polymerization is a process of reacting monomer molecules together in a chemical reaction to form three-dimensional networks or polymer chains...

 plants, amine plants, sulfur plants, and impurities treatment plants.