Curaçao Refinery (Isla)

A 335,000 barrels per calendar day petroleum refinery in Willemstad, CW, operated by RdK. Nelson Complexity 3.

Record

Rated capacity

335,000 bpd (atmospheric crude distillation, calendar day)

Nelson Complexity Index

3

Status

Operating

Operator

RdK

Supplier graph

bomforge.com/companies/rdk-willemstad

Coordinates

12.1500, -68.9700

Notes

Recent news (Jan 2026) indicates Curaçao is actively positioning itself as a Caribbean hub for Venezuelan oil storage and transshipment, with tankers like MV Regina arriving for storage operations. Major trading firms (Vitol, Trafigura) are involved in moving Venezuelan oil through the island. This suggests refinery infrastructure is being utilized for oil handling operations, though likely not at full capacity given the focus on storage/transshipment rather than full refining.

What coverage reports

— no disruption on the record

0 reported in 12 months

2024-092026-08

stories filed per month · red = a disruption

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

1. 6 Mar 2025 General Low
   Future of Curaçao's Isla Refinery Remains Uncertain Despite Government Plans to Continue Operations
   curacaochronicle.com · matched isla

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