scale cotton oil refinery plant in cape town
- Product Using: Producing Cotton Seed Oil
- Type: Cotton Seed Oil Refinery Plant
- Main Machinery: Cotton Seed Oil Refinery Plant Machine
- Automatic Grade: Automatic
- Production Capacity: 100%
- Model Number: cooking oil refinery line
- Voltage: 380V
- Power(W): according to capacity
- Dimension(L*W*H): various with capacity
- Weight: changed with capacity
- Certification: CE and ISO
- After-sales Service Provided: Engineers available to service machinery overseas
- Raw material: oil seeds
- Product: edible oil
- Solvent name: n-hexane
- Capacity: 1-3000TPD oil mill machinery
- Oil content in rice bran: from 18-22%
- Oil residues: less than 1%
- Function: oil mill machinery
- Manufacturing experience: 40 years
- Warranty: 1 year
- Material of equipment: stainless steel and carbon steel
- Project Location: cape town
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The Astron Energy Refinery
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Astron Energy says it is close to fully reopening refinery
The Astron Energy South Africa oil refinery in Milnerton that has been offline since 2020 is set to reopen. Picture: Henk Kruger African News Agency (ANA) Published Feb 3, 2023
Astron Energy in final stages of South African refinery restart
Astron Energy aims to re-open its Cape Town refinery by end
13/09/2022. 0. 244. - Advertisement -. Astron Energy is aiming to re-open its Cape Town refinery, formerly Caltex Chevron Refinery, by the end of this year, says CEO Thabiet Booley. This past week, the liquid fuels company unveiled its new look service stations launching a massive drive to rebrand from Caltex to Astron Energy.
Astron’s refinery – formerly known as Calref and which Glencore acquired with all Chevron’s SA assets in 2019 – has been offline ever since mid-2020 when a deadly fire caused the plant to shut. And industry observers have grown deeply sceptical that Astron truly intends to restart operations. But Nagle said the restoration has progressed.
Investigations ongoing at Glencore's Cape Town refinery after
The early morning explosion and fire on July 2 at South Africa's third biggest crude oil refinery also injured seven workers before the plant was shut down just as it had been restarting after an
Of the various projects in the pipeline, the restart of Astron Energy’s 100,000 barrels a day (b/d) Cape Town refinery will almost certainly be the first to be realised. Astron (a subsidiary of the global commodity trader Glencore) bought the refinery from Chevron in 2019 but the plant has been out of action since it was damaged by a fire
About Astron Energy - An Organisation Driven By Energy
In 1966, we further strengthened our position as a key investor in South Africa with the construction of our refinery in Cape Town. Since 2018, Astron Energy has been operating the Caltex brand under a license agreement with Chevron. Over the next few years, all Caltex branded service stations in South Africa and Botswana will be rebranded
Published Jul 2, 2020. | Published Jul 2, 2020. Cape Town - The explosion that occurred at Astron Energy's Milnerton refinery in the early hours of Thursday morning which resulted in the death of
- Which oil refinery is still in operation in South Africa?
- Until Astron restarts, the only local crude oil refinery still in operation is the 108000 bbl/d Natref refinery in Sasolburg, in the Free State, which belongs to a joint venture between energy companies Sasol Oil and TotalEnergies South Africa.
- How many refineries are there in South Africa?
- South Africa currently has six refineries, three of which (Astron in Cape Town, PetroSA in Mossel Bay and Engen) are currently not operating.
- Will Glencore reopen its Cape Town oil refinery?
- Global commodities trader Glencore will restart its Cape Town oil refinery in the fourth quarter this year, more than two years after a deadly explosion shuttered the plant, Chief Executive Gary Nagle said during an earnings call on Thursday. The 100 000 bl/d refinery is run by Astron Energy, which is majority owned by Switzerland-based Glencore.
- How does Cape Town refinery work?
- At our Cape Town refinery we are dedicated to producing the finest fuels through our refining process: Crude oil arrives by oil tanker in Saldanha Bay for discharge and is then transported to Cape Town refinery via pipeline.
- Which Sasol refineries are still operational in South Africa?
- Out of South Africa 's six refineries, only Sasol's Natref crude oil refinery and its Secunda coal -to-liquids plant are currently operational. A Sasol spokesperson said the Natref is ramping back up this week after declaring force majeure on crude oil supplies last month.
- What happened to South Africa's largest refinery?
- The latest blow to the local refining industry was the mothballing of South Africa ¡¯s largest refinery at the end of March.
