Gelsenkirchen-Scholven

The site in Gelsenkirchen-Scholven forms an integrated refinery together with the site in Gelsenkirchen-Horst. The single parts of the refinery are connected to each other via pipeline system. Besides mineral oil processing taking place at both sites, BP Gelsenkirchen GmbH in Scholven operates two crackers for the production of approx. one million tons of ethylene and more than 600,000 tons of propylene. From these raw materials, Sabic Polyolefine GmbH at the Scholven site, for example, produces the corresponding polyolefins.

Production based on refinery and petrochemical raw materials

Scholven is connected via pipeline to the ports of Gelsenkirchen-Horst, Bottrop, and Marl and thus connected via canals, to the river Rhine and the European waterway network (e.g. Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Wilhelmshaven)

Direct access to the highway A52, and to the A43 and A2, access to the European highway network

Direct access to the railroad network of Deutsche Bahn and the European railroad network

Access to 2 crude oil pipelines and to the European ethylene network, further product pipelines to customers in the region

Three major airports within a radius of 50 to 100 km (Düsseldorf, Cologne/Bonn, and Dortmund)

The total range of mineral oil products including bitumen and petrochemical products, in particular olefins, polyolefins, aromatic hydrocarbons, methanol, ammonia, technical gases