Leuna (dpa/sa) - The refinery in Leuna currently processes around 50 percent of crude oil that does not come from Russia. This was announced by a spokeswoman for Total Energies Germany on request. The supply of Russian crude oil to the refinery will end at the end of 2022, she confirmed. The alternative supply of the Leuna refinery takes place via the port in Gdansk and a pipeline from Gdansk (Poland), said the Total spokeswoman. The crude oil is sourced from the international market, she continued.
After the start of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine in the spring of this year, the French oil company Total (Paris) announced that it would stop buying Russian crude oil by the end of 2022. The company did not provide information on the future capacity of the Leuna refinery. According to previous information, around eleven to twelve million tons of crude oil can be processed in the industrial plant per year. This results in mineral oil products. These are mainly fuels such as petrol and diesel, as well as heating oil, aviation fuel, bitumen, which is required for road construction, and methanol as a raw material for the processing industry.
Totalenergies Raffinerie Mitteldeutschland GmbH (Leuna/Spergau) with around 600 employees is the heart of the Leuna Chemical Park (Saalekreis). Around 100 companies with more than 12,000 employees are based on this industrial site. According to previous information, the refinery supplies around 1,300 filling stations in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia with fuel. The petroleum processing plant was built in 1994 and commissioned in 1997. The Franco-German economic project was a key investment for structural change in the east.
