The conversion of the former Shell Rheinland refinery into the Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland (Shell Rheinland) is progressing. As a next step, Shell Deutschland GmbH plans to make the Wesseling site free of crude oil. The raw material crude oil is to be replaced in future with new or reallocated plants. For more CO 2 -free or low-carbon products, hydrogen, circular waste materials and biogenic input materials are increasingly being used. For this purpose, existing systems are to be dismantled, new ones created and existing ones converted or rededicated. The plans for the cessation of crude oil processing are still at the beginning. A final investment decision is still pending.
The employees were informed today about the plans to stop crude oil processing at the Wesseling site from 2025. The crude oil distillations in Cologne-Godorf remain in operation. The Shell Verbund in North-West Europe will ensure the security of supply with fuels and other mineral oil products in the coming years.
Shell aims to become a net zero emissions company by 2050 at the latest, in line with society. With the renovations in Wesseling, Shell Rheinland will directly save one million tons of direct CO 2 emissions annually.
In July, Europe's largest PEM hydrogen electrolysis plant for the production of green hydrogen, REFHYNE, was officially inaugurated in Wesseling. Shell is already planning to build a 100 MW electrolysis plant. In addition, a Bio-PTL plant is planned, in which synthetic aviation fuels and petroleum are produced from green electricity and biomass. Both projects are at an advanced planning stage, but a final investment decision is still to be made. The final investment decision has already been made for a plant for the production of bio-LNG for heavy goods vehicles.
"The transformation from the hitherto energy-intensive industries to climate-neutral companies is an important contribution to reducing the emission of climate-damaging gases as quickly as possible, curbing climate change and actively protecting resources," said the North Rhine-Westphalian Environment Minister Ursula Heinen- Eater. “We therefore welcome the conversion announced by Shell and the associated CO 2 -neutrality of the refinery site and most of the products produced there. The plans presented today for the 'crude oil-free' part of the refinery by the year 2025 are an impressive signal in this context and also an important step towards the desired goal of a climate-neutral energy system. "
“As a refinery, we have played an important role in the fossil energy market over the past few decades. We want to take over this in the future with a completely changed product portfolio as Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland ”, explains Dr. Marco Richrath, General Manager of the Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland. "Especially in the course of the energy transition, we want to be a reliable partner for society, business and politics."
Notes for editors:
Completion of redundancies for operational reasons should be avoided as far as possible and those affected should be transferred to other workplaces, retraining and further training.
The crude oil distillation in Wesseling has an annual capacity of almost 8 million tons.
In the medium term, crude oil is only to be used for the production of special products such as petrochemicals, lubricants and bitumen.
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