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Petroleum f a c i l i t i e s , Hamburg

Map Showing
PETROLEUM FACILITIES
WILHELMSBURG & NEUHOF AREAS

HAMBURG
600 6 0 0 METEB8

JJOO YASDS

LEGEND

1. Ocean Terminal, DEUTSCHE ERDOL A. G. See detail plan of this instal­

lation in the distributing section.

2. Refinery of OLWERKE JULIUS SCHINDLER G.m.b.H.

A. Distillation Plant
B. Boiler House.
C. Camouflaged Storage Tanks.
D. Storage Tanks.
3. Vegetable Oil Plant HANSA MOHLE.
4. Refinery of RHENANIA-OSSAG MINERAL6LWERKE A. G. See detail plan

of this installation in the refining section.

5. Refinery of DEUTSCHE PETROLEUM A. G. See detail plan of this instal

lation in the refining section.
Hoheschaaf
6. Vegetable Oil Plant NORDISCHE OLWERKE?
7. Unidentified Oil Storage Rant
8. Refinery of JOHANN HALTERMAN
A. Boiler House
B. Distillation Unit
C. Lube Oil Treatment
D. Camouflaged Storage Tanks
E. Storage Tanks
F. Possible Storage in this Area
G. Buildings Under Construction
H. Offices
9. Unidentified Oil Storage Plant
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Gras brook-Hamburg

MAP SHOWING

PETROLEUM FACILITIES

GRASBROOK AREA
HAMBURG

A. Refinery of RHENANIAOSSAG
MINERALOLWERKE A. G.
B. Former Location of "OLEX"
DEUTSCHE BENZIN und
PETROLEUM G. m. b. H.
C. Refinery of MINERALOLWERKE
ALBRECHT & Co. A. G.
D. Terminal of ATLANTIC
REFINING Co. G.m.b.H.
E. Terminal of MASCHINENOEL
IMPORT G.m.b.H.
F. Refinery of ERNST SCHLIEMANN'S
OLWERKE
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Rhenania-Ossag, Harburg

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REFINERY OF

RHENANIA-OSSAG MINERALOLWERKE A. G
HARBURG (HAMBURG)

DETAILS OF TANKAGE
A - Gasoline
NO. TANKS M3 BBLS TOTAL Ms TOTAL BBLS
3 8750 55,125 26.250 165,375
2 6600 41,580 13,200 83,160
1 36lO 22,743 3,610 22,743
1 2610 16,443 2,610 16,443
1 1800 11,340 1,800 11,340
2 1160 7,308 2,320 14,616
1 200 1,260 200 1,260
TOTAL FOR UNIT 49,990 314,937

B - Lube Oil & Topped Crude • Partial List of Tanks

4 8,783 55,332 35,132
C - Distillate
3 4,636 29,207 13,908 87,621
3 1,540 9,702 4,620 29,106

Receiving Tanks
Finished Oil Products
Brown Asphalt
Asphalt
Service Tanks • Solvent Treatment Unit
Receiving Tanks - Distillation Unit
Receiving Tanks - Purification Unit
Paraffin
Additional List of Lube - Oil Tankage
Exact Location Unkown
15 556 3,503 8,340 52,557
4 554 3,490 2,216 13,960
2 384 2,419 768 4,838
4 204 1,285 816 5,140
23 120 756 2,760 17,388
2 30 189 60 378
TOTAL KNOWN TANKAGE 118,610 747,243

LEGEND
1 - PUMPHOUSE 22 - ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
2 LABORATORY 23 - FUEL TESTING UNIT
3 • PUMPHOUSE (VACUUM) 24 • SOLVENT TREATMENT 4 RECLAMATION
4 • PUMPHOUSE • • CHILLER HOUSE
5 - RECEIVINQ HOUSE b FILTER HOUSE
6 DISTILLATION TOWERS c REFRIGERATION HOUSE
7 • ASPHALT COOLER d • SOLVENT MIXING 4 STORAGE
8 - PUMPHOUSE • • RECOVERY UNIT
9 TRUMBLE UNIT 25 -FREIGHT STORAGE
1 0 • PURIFICATION UNIT 26 UNI0ENTIFIEO POSSIBLY ASPHALT ST0RAC1E
11 • BOILER HOUSE 27 DISTILLATION SECTION
1 2 • WATER TOWERS a ATMOSPH. & VACUUM DISTILLATION TOWERS
1 3 • COAL STORAGE b - CRACKING APPARATUS
1 4 • OVERHEAD CRANE c - TUBE STILL
15 • OISTILLATION 1 TOPPING UNIT d • TUBE STILL
16 - FILTER CLAY RECLAMATION 28 - FIRE HOUSE
1 7 • WORKERS CLUBHOUSE 29 BOILER HOUSE
1 8 • LABORATORY 30 PURIFICATION PLANT
19 ASPHALT FILLING HOUSE 31 STORAGE HOUSE WITH CRANE
20 SEPARATOR 32 PARAFFIN REMOVAL PLANT
21 COVERED TANK 33 GARAOE

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Rhenania-Oasag, Hamburg

VIEW LOOKING EAST, REFINERY OF RHENANIA-OSSAG MINERALOLWERKE A.G..HAMBURG-GRASBROOK

VIEW LOOKING SOUTH, REFINERY OF RHENANIA-OSSAG MINERALOLWERKE A.G.iHAMBURGrHARBURG

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Rhenania-Ossag, Hamburg

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BEenania-Ossag, Hamburg

Refinery: Rhenania-Ossag MineralBlwerke A.G.

Location: On the Reiherstieg Canal just south of the Norder-Elbe River in the Gras-

Drook area of Hamburg harbor,

Ma£3 and^ Plans: Layout plan, page 120. Location shown on map on pages 117 and 246­
247. Photograph on page 119.

Description: Annual capacity: 130,000 metric tons. This is a lubricating oil re­
finery and operates in conjunction with, or complementary to, the Rhenania-

Ossag' s Harburg refinery described above. Production includes turbin and

white oils and medium and low grade lubricants and greases.

The plant has no primary distillation eouipment. Its lubricating oil facil­
ities include an Edeleanu plant, clay and acid treating, solvent dewaxing and

a grease plant.

Total tankage capacity is reported to approximate 60,000 metric tons (378,000

barrels), (139 tanks). A prewar statement of storage and filling tanks is

given below, but it has not been possible to definitely identify these tanks

on the plan on page 120.

Details of Tankage

No.of Capacity Tofcal Capacity

Tanks Product M*J Barrels

6 Lubricating oil 2 ,500 15,000 94,500

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5 1 ,900 9,500 59,850

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2 1 ,100 2,200 13,860

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14 650 9,100 57,330

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6 600 3,600 22,680

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2 350 700 4,410

2 n n 300 600 3,780

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4 250 1,000 6,300

45 less than 200 M 3

Lubricating oil 4,550 28,665

T O T A L 46,250 291,375

Raflnery: Rhenania-Ossag MineralBlwerke A.G.

Location: In the Wilhelmsburg area on the north side of the Reiherstieg Canal at

the bend halfway between the Norder and the Stfder-Elbe Rivers. Just west of

Deutsche Petroleum A.G. refinery. Halfway between Rhenania-Ossag1s other re­

fineries at Harburg and Grasbrook.

Maps and Plans: Layout plan on page 123. Location shown on pages 116 ana 246-247.

Description: Annual capacity: 70,000 metric tons. This, the third Rhenania-Ossag

refinery at Hamburg, is a gasoline specialty rerunning plant. It has shell

and pipe stills, but no cracking or lubricating oil facilities.

Tankage capacities total approximately 21,000 metric tons (132,300 barrels),

Refinery: Ernst SchliemannTs Oelwerke

Location: On the east side of the Reiherstieg Canal south of the Rhenania-Ossag re

finery and adjoining the Mineralol Albrecht & Co. refinery in the Grasbrook

area of Hamburg.

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Deurag-Neurag, Misburg

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and Plans: Layout sketch on page 117. Location shown on map on pages 246-247.

Description: Annual capacity: 65,000 metric tons. This is a small lubricating oil

works with acid and clay treating facilities, but no crude distillation facil­
ities. The plant produces white oils and ordinary lubricants. Detailed in­
formation is lacking. This company has been mentioned as having a small com­
pounding plant in the Wilhelmsburg area, But this is unconfirmed.

Tankage is estimated to total 30,000 metric tons (189,000 barrels).

3.9 HANNOVER

inery: Deurag-Nerag (Gewerkschaft Deutsche Erd81-Raffinerie and Gewerkschaft Neue

ErdBl-Raf f inerie ).

Location: At Misburg, on the east side of the Weser-Elbe Canal approximately four

miles east of Hannover. Latitude 52° 23 T N, longitude 9° 51 • E.

Maps and Flans: Layout plan on page 127. Location map on page 124. Flow diagram,

page 129. Photographs, page 126.

Description: Annual capacity: 300,000 metric tons. This plant, commonly called the

Deurag-Nerag refinery, consists of two refineries operated jointly and consti­

tutes one of the most important units of the German refining industry. The

Gewerkschaft Deutsche Erdfll-Raffinerie (Deurag) is the older of the two and is

primarily a gasoline plant designed to operate on indigenous German crude oil.

The cracking unit is a Dubbs,continuous coking, with separate black oil

heater. Capacity is 2,500 barrels per day of gasoline and 600 barrels per day

of kerosene, or 3,000 barrels per day of diesel fuel plus 900 barrels per day

of gasoline and 600 barrels per day of kerosene.

Other units include two crude topping units, gasoline treating, benzol and

alcohol blending, gasoline stabilizer, gas compression plant, propane treating

and loading plant, crude and finished oil storage.

Electric power is purchased. Cable crosses canal just south of railroad

bridge adjacent to plant.

The steam plant with oil and gas fired boilers has capacity only for the

Deurag plant. Boiler feed water is obtained from the Misburg nunicipal system*

The Gewerkschaft Neue Erdfll-Raffinerie (Nerag) is a modern lubricating oil

refinery built in 1935/36 and put into operation early in 1937. It is de­
signed to operate on indigenous German crude and topped crude in conjunction

with the Deurag plant. It is primarily a lube oil plant, all other products

being by-products. This plant takes some reduced crude from the adjacent

Deurag plant and returns asphalt, waxes, extracts and other by-products as

cracking unit feed stock to the Deurag plant.

The Nerag plant originally produced 1,000 to 1,500 barrels per day of high

quality refined and dewaxed lube oil, plus 300 to 400 barrels per day very low

quality lube oil for industrial uses, 650 barrels per day straight-run gaso­
line 700 barrels per day kerosene distillate, and 400 barrels per day diesel

fuel'(gas oil). In addition, 200 to 400 barrels per day of chrystaline wax is

available. In the Fall of 1939, consideration was being given to hydrogen­

ating 1/2 of this quantity to fatty oils for use in soaps, etc. A further

breakdown of 1939 production rates per calendar operating day, based on the

average of a 30 to 40 day period of complete plant operation is given on page

130.