Also known as:
Isla is a large, low complexity refinery on the Island of Curacao off the coast of Venezuela
The refinery is owned by the government through the state company RdK.
Global Oil Terminals has a license to operate the refinery for RdK.
Complexity: 6.2
Atmospheric distillation - 320 kbpd
Vacuum distillation - 195 kbpd
Visbreaker - 81 kbpd
FCC - 53 kbpd
Alkylation - 11 kbpd
Polymerization - 2 kbpd
Reformer - 22 kbpd - Semiregen
Naphtha hydrotreater - 53 kbpd
Distillate hydrotreater - 37 kbpd
VGO hydrotreater - 27 kbpd
Hydrogen production - 21 MMscfd
Base oil plant - 9 kbpd
Asphalt plant - 26 kbpd
1918 - Refinery commissioned by Shell
1985 - Refinery sold to Curacao government and leased to PDVSA to operate
2019 - PDVSA lease was not renewed and control of refinery reverted to RdK and ceased operations
2024 - RdK agreement with Global Oil to restart the refinery for asphalt production