Also known as:
The RNEST refinery is a project under way to build a large, high conversion refinery located south of Recife in Ipojuca, Pernambuco state in Brazil.
The refinery is 100% owned and operated by Petrobras.
The refinery is partially complete. When fully operational the first train will have 115 kb/d capacity, and a second train of the same size is in progress.
Complexity: 10.3
Atmospheric distillation: 130 kbpd
Coking - 75 kbpd
Distillate hydrotreater - 82 kbpd
FCC naphtha hydrotreater - 19 kbpd
2014 - Petrobras built and started first train
2025 - Completed expansion to 130 kbpd