Processing refinery

What does the principle of processing refinery mean?

Processing refinery, in other words „cost centre“, means the focus only on the production not on the purchase of raw materials nor the sale of oil products. The processing refinery is supplied with oil by its shareholders, which means by the trade associations of the owners. Concerning Česká rafinérská there are four of them: Eni Česká republika, Shell Czech Republic and Unipetrol RPA.

These processors supply together with the crude oil also the processing request that specifies technological process conditions and the request on the structure and the quantity of final products. This is usually done in a weekly rhythm. The task of the refinery then is to set up the received requests on the structure and the quantity so as the received requests on the quality are produced and could be dispatched. The dispatch is also run in compliance with the requests of the processors that can either carry away the product by TTFs to their petrol stations or their customers or they let the goods transport by rail or by Čepro Pipeline System.

The task of the refinery operating in processing mode is to process the supplied oil according to the requirement for a quality oil product. Moreover, this all in the course of keeping high safety and ecological requirements. For this operation, the refinery is given a processing fee, which is both bound over the installed refinery capacity (including labour costs and other fixed costs) and deduced from the quantity of processed oil, energy consumption and other variable costs. The processing fee is thus the only income of the refinery paid by single shareholders.

The strategy of the processing refinery is to achieve the requests from its shareholders that enable to exploit its maximum refinery capacity. And also, to provide such services and the quality of its products that make the shareholders utilize it. At the same time to agree on such a structure and a level of the processing fee that is competitive and enables further development to the refinery.