Raffinerie de Cressier

Switzerland is not an EU member: this row must never enter an EU refinery total. Operator page (VAROPreem manufacturing hubs, opened 2026-10-01) states 'Cressier is Switzerland's only conventional fuel manufacturing facility. It supplies approximately 30% of the national fuel market and is critical infrastructure for national supply.', '72.5 kbd total capacity', '100% owned', 'Opened in 1966'. The 72.5 kbd is labelled 'total capacity' and the page does not say it is crude distillation capacity; the page gives no date for the figure, so capacity_source_date is empty. The site's own page (raffineriedecressier.ch, opened 2026-10-01) states 'Appartient à 100% VARO', 'Année de construction: 1966', about 280 employees, and that the refinery turned 60 in 2026; its 'Capacité de raffinage' counter shows the unit 'Barils / Jour' but no number in the served page, so nothing is taken from it. The same page announces 'VARO Energy et Preem fusionnent pour former VAROPreem' (press release of 16.1.2026). The shareholders of VAROPreem itself are not stated on the opened pages and are not recorded. Operator legal name from the Swiss commercial register (Zefix, UID CHE-134.730.663, status EXISTIEREND, legal seat Cressier (NE), queried 2026-10-01): https://www.zefix.admin.ch/en/search/entity/list/firm/1058312 . Crude supply: 'Le pétrole brut arrive par l’oléoduc SPSE depuis le terminal maritime de Fos-sur-Mer' and 'Une ligne indépendante nous approvisionne à partir de Gennes, dans la région de Besançon' (raffineriedecressier.ch). SPSE: its only operational line (34 inch) links the Fos-sur-Mer depot to the depots of St-Quentin-Fallavier and Gennes, 'alimentant en pétrole brut les raffineries de Feyzin (Rhône) et de Cressier (Suisse)'; the Besançon terminal 'alimente le dépôt du pipeline du Jura connecté à la raffinerie de Cressier'. sfplj-ojnsa.ch: SFPLJ (Société Française du Pipeline du Jura) owns the 55 km section from the Gennes depot to the Swiss border (commune of Villers-le-Lac) and is owned by VARO Refining Cressier SA; OJNSA (Oléoduc du Jura Neuchâtelois SA) owns the 33 km section from the border at La Rançonnière (commune Les Brenets) to the refinery and is owned 80% by VARO Refining Cressier SA and 20% by Groupe E; 88 km in total. Dispatch: 'Nos produits quittent la raffinerie par rail, pour approvisionner nos dépôts, nos clients, voire pour l’exportation en direction du port de Bâle-Birsfelden. Des camions-citernes s'approvisionnent aussi directement a la raffinerie.' The Birsfelden link is a rail dispatch route named by the operator, not a pipeline. Hormuz: the export-point row 'Varo Cressier refinery (inland site, no seaborne loading point)' in hormuz_route_classification_v1.csv classifies the site DOES_NOT_REQUIRE_HORMUZ. Coordinates are OpenStreetMap-derived: they are the Nominatim centroid of OSM relation 4217587 'Varo Refining (Cressier) SA' (landuse=industrial, industrial=refinery), https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4217587 - looked up 2026-10-01, when a Nominatim lookup of that relation returned exactly 47.0391289, 7.0370630 (the same point as the export-point row in infrastructure_geo_v1.csv) - not operator-published. Cross-check against the EEA Industrial Emissions Portal (https://industry.eea.europa.eu/, E-PRTR activity 1(a), facility reported by Switzerland, namespace CH.CAED id 11, queried via the EEA DiscoData SQL API 2026-10-01): 'Varo Refining Cressier SA / Raffinerie de Cressier', Route de la Raffinerie 21, 2088 Cressier, status functional, reporting year 2023, at 47.04, 7.0358 - about 140 m WNW of the stored point and INSIDE the OSM site outline (Overpass is_in, 2026-10-01). The stored OSM coordinate is kept; the EEA point is recorded here as a cross-check.