La Teja Refinery

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| caption = La Teja Refinery (right) with La Teja neighborhood inland and the main city of Montevideo on the right.

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The La Teja Refinery is the only oil refinery in Uruguay, and is located in the La Teja neighborhood in Montevideo. Owned by the national industry ANCAP, the refinery primarily produces light-grade oil products used for domestic industries.{{Cite web|date=2020-07-03|title=Uruguay's ANCAP lets contract for La Teja refinery|url=http://www.longdowneic.com/uruguays-ancap-lets-contract-for-la-teja-refinery|access-date=2022-01-26|website=Longdown EIC|language=en-GB}} The refinery is connected to an oil terminal in the Port of Montevideo.{{Cite web|title=MONTEVIDEO|url=https://www.nabsa.com.ar/ports/montevideo.html|access-date=2022-01-26|website=www.nabsa.com.ar}}

The refinery was first operated in 1937, and currently has a total capacity of approximately 50,000 barrels a day.{{Cite web|title=Business value of hydrocarbon production accounting|url=https://www.digitalrefining.com/article/1001060/business-value-of-hydrocarbon-production-accounting#.YfFU_urMJPY|access-date=2022-01-26|website=www.digitalrefining.com}} {{As of|2022}}, two-thirds of Uruguay's petroleum imports come from the United States, with a further 18% from neighboring Brazil.{{Cite web |title=Crude Petroleum in Uruguay |url=https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/crude-petroleum/reporter/ury |access-date=2024-09-05 |website=The Observatory of Economic Complexity |language=en}}

Emissions

A 2011 study measured found SO₂ emissions to be ~ 4×10¹⁷ molec cm⁻² slant column density directly over the oil refinery, decreasing as the plume disperses and NO₂ peaking at ~ 1×10¹⁶ molec cm⁻².{{Cite journal|url=https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/274/1/012083/meta|language=en|doi=10.1088/1742-6596/274/1/012083|title=Ground based measurements of SO2and NO2emissions from the oil refinery "la Teja" in Montevideo city |year=2011 |last1=Frins |first1=Erna |last2=Ibrahim |first2=Ossama |last3=Casaballe |first3=Nicolás |last4=Osorio |first4=Matías |last5=Arismendi |first5=Federico |last6=Wagner |first6=Thomas |last7=Platt |first7=Ulrich |journal=Journal of Physics: Conference Series |volume=274 |issue=1 |page=012083 |bibcode=2011JPhCS.274a2083F |s2cid=109343060 |doi-access=free }}

Planned future

The refinery undergoes overhauls approximately every 4 years.{{Cite web|title=Uruguay's La Teja Refinery Prepares for 2011 Shutdown|url=https://www.industrialinfo.com/news/abstract.jsp?newsitemID=159655|access-date=2022-01-26|website=www.industrialinfo.com}} The capacity of the refinery is scheduled to be upgrade in 2023 to better produce lightweight petroleum products with residual oil solvent extraction and solvent deasphalting.

Because of the energy transition in the country, where Uruguay had over 94% clean energy and the government has plans for a transition for other industries like transport, Minister of Environment Adrián Peña projected closing the refinery by 2035 to meet the zero emission goal set out in Uruguay Long Term Climate Strategy.{{Cite web|title=Uruguay consolidates climate change policy, minister says|url=https://en.mercopress.com/2021/12/28/uruguay-consolidates-climate-change-policy-minister-says|access-date=2022-01-26|website=MercoPress|language=en}}

References

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Category:Oil refineries in Uruguay