 Gibraltar-San Roque Refinery | |
  Location of the Gibraltar-San Roque Refinery | |
| Country | Spain |
|---|---|
| Province | Province of Cádiz |
| City | San Roque, Cadiz |
| Coordinates | 36°11′08.9″N 5°23′56.3″W / 36.185806°N 5.398972°W |
| Refinery details | |
| Owner(s) | CEPSA |
| Commissioned | 1967 |
| Capacity | 240,000 bbl/d (38,000 m3/d) |
| No. of employees | 1000+ |
| No. of oil tanks | 150+ |
The Gibraltar-San Roque Refinery (Spanish: Refinería de Gibraltar-San Roque) is an oil refinery owned by CEPSA located on the north shore of the Bay of Gibraltar, in Guadarranque Industrial Estate, between Puente Mayorga and the Guadarranque river, in the municipality of San Roque, Cadiz, Spain. It is located next to the Los Barrios Power Plant, which is a coal fueled power station.
It is the largest refinery in the Iberian Peninsula, with a crude oil daily processing capacity of 240,000 barrels per day.
The refinery occupies 150 acres and has a refining capacity of 12 million tons per year, making it the largest Spanish refinery.
The Spanish Government has been accused of having built the refinery deliberately in an effort to negatively affect the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar, although pollution is indiscriminate and it also affects a large Spanish population in southern Spain.
The results of local air samples by both the Gibraltar and Spanish NGOs and environmental groups are regularly reported to the relevant European Union institutions. Apart from imposing fines on the wealthy CEPSA conglomerate, no other real action is taken.
As of 2018 work began on using Detal technology which will produce linear alkylbenzene, work will take around two years to complete.[1]
- ^ "Cepsa to install Detal technology at its San Roque chemical plant Spain and expand capacity by 25%". Retrieved 27 April 2018.