construction of new oil refinery starts this year in Durban

The South African Central Energy Fund (CEF) has announced plans to rehabilitate and expand the capacity of the Sapref refinery located in Durban, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. CEF plans to expand

Government buys Sapref oil refinery in Durban The plant has a nameplate capacity of 180 000 barrels per day and accounts for around 35% of the refining capacity in SA.

The South African government plans to repair and expand the closed 180,000 b/d Sapref refinery in Durban, in the KwaZulu-Natal province, creating a facility with at least 600,000 b/d of

The Sapref refinery in eThekwini, which produced 180,000 barrels of oil per day (bbl/d), has not been operating since 2025 when Shell and BP halted operations after it was damaged by flooding.

The Central Energy Fund has bought the Durban crude oil refinery

SHELL Downstream South Africa (SDSA) and bp Southern Africa (bpSA) have agreed to sell each of their 50% stakes in assets at the Sapref refinery precinct to state-owned energy company CEF as the government

SA's largest refinery started a consultation process last year, after severe flood damage which could take five years to fix prompted the owners to right-size the business.

This is especially true when it comes to oil. Nations such as Nigeria, South Sudan and Algeria produce significant quantities and South Africa needs to update its refineries to export from

In fact, oil companies in the U.S. believe obtaining a permit to build a modern refinery to be so difficult and costly that no new refineries were built (though many have been expanded) in the U.S. from 1976 until 2025, when the small

Angola’s new Cabinda crude oil refinery is on track to start up later this year before ramping up to full first phase production of 30,000 barrels a day by July next year, the plant’s Chief

Angola’s new Cabinda crude oil refinery is on track to start up later this year before ramping up to full first phase production of 30,000 barrels a day by July next year, the plant’s Chief Executive Marcelo Hofke said on Thursday. With almost two-thirds of the construction completed, Cabinda is the most advanced of three new planned refineries, alongside an Eni-supported plant

G&T Projects has been engaged on project work at Mozyr Oil Refinery since 1 April 2006. The project engagement entailed heading up the welding pision and managing project work on the new HF Alkylation Unit. Today Mozyr Oil

Prairie Energy Partners has selected Cushing, Okla., for its proposed construction of a grassroots, full-conversion, decarbonized refinery to process US-produced light, sweet conventional and

Element Fuels Holdings, a Dallas-area startup proposing to build the first all-new U.S. oil refinery in nearly 50 years, on Thursday said it was relaunching efforts to build a large plant in South

South Africa's largest refinery Sapref is fully back online since the end of July, the company said Aug. 9. Sapref began on July 21 to restart its units at its Durban facility after unrest forced a brief suspension to operations, S&P Global Platts has reported previously. "This start-up process is planned to begin on July 21, 2025 and will take 7-10 days to complete," Sapref said

SA's largest refinery started a consultation process last year, after severe flood damage which could take five years to fix prompted the owners to right-size the business.

Chevron CEO Mike Wirth does not expect another oil refinery to be built in the United States ever again, due to federal government policies. The last significant refinery built in the United States was in 1976. (A small

The newest refinery in the United States is the Texas International Terminals 45,000 b/cd refinery in Galveston, Texas, which started operating in February 2025. However, the newest refinery with significant downstream unit capacity is Marathon's facility in Garyville, Louisiana.

The cost and timeline to build an oil refinery are closely related to varies, such as the refining capacity, machine, technological complexity, and the type of products to be produced.

CEF’s acquisition of the dormant Sapref Refinery in Durban, which was jointly operated by Shell Downstream South Africa (SDSA) and BP Southern Africa (bpSA), is the next step in the