Porvoo refinery

In the short and mid term, the focus of the Porvoo refinery transformation is planned to be on energy efficiency and renewable hydrogen.

First changes initiated

To achieve the ambition at the Porvoo refinery, Neste is, for example, building an upgrading unit for liquefied waste plastic. Over the recent years, the Porvoo refinery has been scaling up liquefied waste plastic processing. Trial runs on processing liquefied waste plastic began in 2020 utilizing existing refinery equipment and have continued with increasing volumes of waste plastic. A facility to upgrade 150,000 tons of liquefied waste plastic per year will be finalized in 2025. The end product gained in the runs – Neste RE™, a drop-in feedstock for petrochemicals production – is turned into high-quality polymers and chemicals, such as new plastics, by Neste’s partners.

Neste has also started modifying existing refinery units to enable co-processing of renewable and recycled raw materials with fossil raw materials in the conventional refining process. With the help of co-processing in Neste’s oil refining processes, the company can produce additional volumes of products that have lower GHG emissions than conventional fossil products. One example is the partnership with PVG to enable households in Europe to heat their homes with a co-processed lower-emission solution for portable liquid fuel heaters. Another example is Neste’s offering of lower-emission marine fuels.

In Finland, Neste has two harbors and six terminals. The harbors are located in Porvoo and Naantali and discharge some 24 million tons of crude oil, renewable and chemically recycled raw materials; fossil, renewable and circular products; as well as other end products a year. End products are delivered to Finnish coastal terminals, the Baltic Sea region, Central Europe and the Americas. Neste’s Porvoo harbor is the biggest in Finland when measured in tons, with some 1,200 ship calls every year.

Neste’s distribution terminals load some 350 trucks a day and are located in Porvoo, Naantali, Hamina, Kokkola, Kemi and Tornio.