Esmeraldas Refinery
A 110,000 barrels per calendar day petroleum refinery in Ecuador, EC, operated by Petroecuador.
Record
- Rated capacity
- 110,000 bpd (atmospheric crude distillation, calendar day)
- Status
- Operator
- Petroecuador
- Parent
- EP Petroecuador
- Supplier graph
- bomforge.com/companies/petroecuador-ecuador
- Coordinates
- -0.4667, -79.6244
Notes
Fire was brought under control as of March 1, 2026. Gradual restart announced for mid-March 2026, indicating transition from emergency shutdown to controlled restart phase. Facility is no longer burning but not yet operational.
What coverage reports
Esmeraldas Refinery in Ecuador Advances Recovery Following Fire
2026-06-23 · 1 publisher filed it
incident 5 · operations 2
These are counts of what publishers filed about this plant, not an operating status. A quiet month means nobody named this facility that month, which is a fact about coverage and not about the plant. Where this site states how a refinery is running it says so in the facts table above, from the curated dataset, and cites it there.
Wire
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Incident HighEsmeraldas Refinery in Ecuador Advances Recovery Following FireIndustrial Info Resources · matched esmeraldas
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Operations MediumThe restart of operations of the FCC Unit at the Esmeraldas Refinery in Ecuador will increase its national fuel productionBNamericas · matched esmeraldas
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Incident CriticalEcuador's top Esmeraldas refinery to gradually restart in mid-March after fireTradingView · matched esmeraldas
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Incident HighFire stops operations at Esmeraldas refineryInspenet · matched esmeraldas
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Incident LowEcuador Refinery Inferno: Esmeraldas Blaze Contained, Zero CasualtiesWION · matched esmeraldas
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Incident HighEcuador restarts Esmeraldas refinery after quake and fire repairsengine.online · matched esmeraldas
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Operations MediumPetroecuador to Restart Esmeraldas Refinery After EarthquakeIndustrial Info Resources · matched esmeraldas
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General LowEsmeraldas Refinery resumes operation after earthquakeInspenet · matched esmeraldas
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General MediumPetroecuador's Esmeraldas refinery restarts operations after earthquakeReuters · matched esmeraldas
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General LowEcuador to relaunch process to revamp, operate Esmeraldas refineryBNamericas · matched esmeraldas
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General LowConsortium expresses interest in renovating Esmeraldas refinery in EcuadorHydrocarbon Engineering · matched esmeraldas
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General MediumEsmeraldas Refinery FCC unit restarted opera...BNamericas · matched esmeraldas
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Maintenance MediumSpecialized company will perform corrective maintenance to the compressor of the FCC Unit of the Esmeraldas RefineryBNamericas · matched esmeraldas
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General LowLicensable picture: A view shows the Ecuador's state-run Esmeraldas refinery complex in Esmeraldasreutersconnect.com · matched esmeraldas
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