Galp Sines Refinery
Sines, Portugal
Galp Sines Refinery is an operating crude oil refinery in Sines, Portugal. It is operated by Petrogal (Galp). Its published capacity is 226 kbpd, quoted in the unit the publisher used and not converted.
- Operator
- Petrogal (Galp)
- Commissioned
- 1978
Refinery recordVerified
Provenance
VerifiedLow- Dataset id
- Fuel Origin curated refinery reference list (data/reference/refineries.csv)refineries.csvreference_refineries_v1
- Period
- not recorded
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-26 22:47 UTC
- Type
- Verified
- Transformation
- none applied - stored exactly as published
- Licence
- Per-row: each cell traces to the operator or regulator page named in the row.
- Capacity is quoted as published and never converted.
- Connections are infrastructure (CONNECTED_TO), not deliveries.
- Crude-import mix, refinery output and Hormuz exposure are national figures; this refinery's own feedstock is not published.
Owners and operator
Who owns and runs the site, as the cited sources state it. A share that was not published is shown as not published, never as 0%.
| Name | Role | Share | From | To | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Petrogal (Galp) | Operator | not published | not published | current | Verified |
| Galp | Owner | not published | not published | current | Verified |
Ports and pipelines it is connected to
Infrastructure only. A connection means the berth or pipeline exists; it does not show that any crude or product was received through it.
No port or pipeline connection is recorded for Galp Sines Refinery in the data we hold. That is a missing record, not evidence that the site has none. Unknown
What it runs on
Which crude this refinery processes is not published. Portugal's crude-import mix is shown as national context - it is not this refinery's intake.
This refinery's crude intake by origin: UNKNOWN
Which crude oil Galp Sines Refinery runs on is not published, so it is UNKNOWN. Refinery-level crude intake by origin is not public in most of Europe, and we do not allocate a national figure across refineries.
Unknown
National · PortugalNational context — not this refinery's own figure
Galp Sines Refinery is the only operating crude oil refinery we hold for Portugal (Galp Matosinhos Refinery (Refinaria do Porto) no longer refines crude), so the national crude-import figure is the closest public evidence of what it runs on. In June 2026, Portugal's crude imports came mainly from Brazil (60%), Guyana (12%) and Nigeria (11%). This is an inference, not a reported intake: crude produced in Portugal itself, stock changes and re-exports are not separated out in the import figures.
Does the national figure describe this refinery?Inferred · lowLowOnly as an inference: it is the country's only operating crude refinery we hold.
| Producing country | Tonnes | Share | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 668,671 | 60% | Calculated |
| Guyana | 134,821 | 12% | Calculated |
| Nigeria | 124,504 | 11% | Calculated |
| Libya | 94,973 | 9% | Calculated |
| United States of America | 90,602 | 8% | Calculated |
| Month | Brazil | Algeria | Nigeria | United States of America | Azerbaijan | All other origins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07 | 32% | 16% | - | 11% | 26% | 15% |
| 2025-08 | 55% | 8% | 37% | - | - | 0% |
| 2025-09 | 66% | 16% | 7% | 11% | - | 0% |
| 2025-10 | - | - | - | - | - | 100% |
| 2025-11 | - | - | - | - | - | 100% |
| 2025-12 | 42% | 29% | - | 14% | 15% | 0% |
| 2026-01 | 67% | 33% | - | - | - | 0% |
| 2026-02 | 53% | 18% | - | 12% | 17% | 0% |
| 2026-03 | 66% | - | 25% | 9% | - | 0% |
| 2026-04 | 50% | 17% | - | - | 22% | 11% |
| 2026-05 | 34% | - | - | 23% | 11% | 32% |
| 2026-06 | 60% | - | 11% | 8% | - | 21% |
"-" means the origin was not reported that month. A PARTIAL month does not add up to 100% because part of the volume was not attributed.
Refinery output in Portugal (national)
What all refineries in Portugal produced together, as published. This refinery's own output is not published and the national total is not divided between refineries.
National · PortugalNational context — not this refinery's own figure
National figure, not this refinery's: Portugal's refineries together produced 955.223 thousand tonnes of oil products in June 2026. Galp Sines Refinery's own output is not published, and the national total is not divided between refineries. Official
| Motor gasoline | 224.344 | Official |
|---|---|---|
| Road diesel | 261.86 | Official |
| Heating and other gasoil | 16.03 | Official |
| Kerosene-type jet fuel | 148.375 | Official |
| Naphtha | 61.054 | Official |
| Fuel oil | 158.324 | Official |
| Liquefied petroleum gases | 15.645 | Official |
| Petroleum coke | 0 | Official |
| All oil products (total) | 955.223 | Official |
| Month | Total | Motor gasoline | Road diesel | Kerosene-type jet fuel |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07 | 986.558 | 210.45 | 304.162 | 128.357 |
| 2025-08 | 1,037.867 | 227.488 | 396.334 | 93.123 |
| 2025-09 | 987.184 | 200.211 | 318.113 | 102.457 |
| 2025-10 | 326.685 | 24.633 | 76.316 | 49.741 |
| 2025-11 | 214.214 | 54.6 | 37.97 | 58.893 |
| 2025-12 | 825.303 | 159.564 | 232.483 | 131.129 |
| 2026-01 | 867.613 | 160.827 | 250.119 | 107.722 |
| 2026-02 | 639.077 | 143.022 | 163.968 | 81.327 |
| 2026-03 | 1,004.878 | 222.538 | 279.115 | 150.128 |
| 2026-04 | 979.798 | 183.324 | 261.527 | 157.81 |
| 2026-05 | 994.579 | 238.161 | 288.012 | 149.779 |
| 2026-06 | 955.223 | 224.344 | 261.86 | 148.375 |
Outages and maintenance
Planned and unplanned shutdowns we can cite. There is no public register for EU refineries, so an empty list is not a clean record.
No public outage register exists for EU refineries (docs/DATA_SOURCES.md §L).
No outage or maintenance is recorded for Galp Sines Refinery. No public outage register exists for EU refineries (docs/DATA_SOURCES.md §L). This is a missing record, not a statement that the refinery ran without interruption.
Strait of Hormuz: Portugal's direct crude exposure (national)
The share of the country's crude imports that came from origins loading inside the Persian Gulf. Measured per country, never per refinery.
National · PortugalNational context — not this refinery's own figure
National figure, not specific to this refinery: Portugal imported no crude oil from origins that load inside the Persian Gulf during July 2026. Every contributing origin has a single export route outside the Gulf, so the share is 0% by geography, not by estimate. The range describes the country's crude imports; which of them reached Galp Sines Refinery is not published. Calculated
Sources used on this page
- https://www.galp.com/corp/en/about-us/what-we-do/industrial-and-midstream- Capacity; Status; Site record
- https://www.galp.com/corp/en/media/press-releases/press-release/id/1180/galp-to-concentrate-refining-operations-in-sines- Source notes
- https://www.dgeg.gov.pt/pt/areas-setoriais/energia/combustiveis/instalacoes-petroliferas/refinarias/- Source notes
- https://industry.eea.europa.eu/- Source notes
- https://github.com/oiramix/oil_routes/blob/main/data/reference/REFERENCE_DATA_SOURCES.md- How the refinery list was compiled; National Hormuz exposure
- https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/nrg_ti_oilm/default/table?lang=en- National crude imports
- https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/en/nrg_quant_esms.htm- National crude imports (methodology); National refinery output (methodology)
- https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/nrg_cb_oilm/default/table?lang=en- National refinery output
Source notes for this refinery (verbatim)
Capacity from Galp's own Industrial and Midstream page, which prints "With a capacity to distil 226 thousand barrels per day and to process a wide range of crudes". capacity_bpd=226000 is that same figure with the 'thousand' multiplier applied - a decimal rescale within the barrels-per-day unit, NOT a tonne-barrel conversion. capacity_source_date is empty because the page carries no publication or as-of date; it does cite 2025 throughput ("75 mboe of raw materials were processed"), so it is at least as recent as 2026. OTHER PUBLISHED VALUES, not used: Galp's press release of 21 December 2020 announcing the Matosinhos closure prints Sines as having a "crude processing capacity of 220 kbpd" (https://www.galp.com/corp/en/media/press-releases/press-release/id/1180/galp-to-concentrate-refining-operations-in-sines); and DGEG, the Portuguese Tier-1 regulator, prints "10,4 Mton/ano" (https://www.dgeg.gov.pt/pt/areas-setoriais/energia/combustiveis/instalacoes-petroliferas/refinarias/). The DGEG page is demonstrably stale - it still describes Matosinhos as an operating 5,5 Mton/ano refinery - so it was not used for Sines either. No conversion was performed between the tonne and barrel figures. Status OPERATING: the same Galp page calls Sines Portugal's sole functioning refinery, and the EEA IED register carries "Refinaria de Sines" as 'functional' through reporting year 2024. Commissioned year 1978 is the EEA IED dateOfStartOfOperation (1978-09-01) for every reporting year 2016-2024; no operator page I opened gives a start year. connected_ports left empty: the Galp page refers only to "its coastal location and deep-water harbour infrastructure" and names no port or pipeline. Coordinates are from the EEA Industrial Emissions Portal (IED Annex I activity 1.2 'Refining of mineral oil and gas'), reporting year 2024, read via the EEA DiscoData SQL API on 2026-09-22; see https://industry.eea.europa.eu/. Not operator-published.
Record reference_refineries_v1 / galp-sines, retrieved 2026-09-21 00:00 UTC, payload hash 25f077aacfd6.
How to read the labels
- OfficialReported directly by an official authority.
- VerifiedReported by a third party we have verified against a primary record.
- CalculatedComputed by us from reported inputs. The method is published on the methodology page.
- Inferred · highNot reported. Inferred from at least two independent physical records.
- Inferred · mediumNot reported. Inferred from strong indirect evidence, with no explicit confirmation.
- Inferred · lowNot reported. Plausible from infrastructure or movement data only. Do not read as fact.
- UnknownNo defensible public evidence establishes this. We are not guessing, and this is not a measurement of zero.