{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2014-738/annex/division-1",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2014/738",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision of 9 October 2014 establishing best available techniques (BAT) conclusions, under Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on industrial emissions, for the refining of mineral oil and gas (notified under document C(2014) 7155) (Text with EEA relevance) (2014/738/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2014-738",
  "path": "annex/division/1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "SCOPE",
  "text": "These BAT conclusions cover certain industrial activities specified in Section 1.2 of Annex I to Directive 2010/75/EU, namely ‘1.2. Refining of mineral oil and gas’.\nIn particular, these BAT conclusions cover the following processes and activities:\nActivity\nSubactivities or processes included in activity\nAlkylation\nAll alkylation processes: hydrofluoric acid (HF), sulphuric acid (H2SO4) and solid-acid\nBase oil production\nDeasphalting, aromatic extraction, wax processing and lubricant oil hydrofinishing\nBitumen production\nAll techniques from storage to final product additives\nCatalytic cracking\nAll types of catalytic cracking units such as fluid catalytic cracking\nCatalytic reforming\nContinuous, cyclic and semi-regenerative catalytic reforming\nCoking\nDelayed and fluid coking processes. Coke calcination\nCooling\nCooling techniques applied in refineries\nDesalting\nDesalting of crude oil\nCombustion units for energy production\nCombustion units burning refinery fuels, excluding units using only conventional or commercial fuels\nEtherification\nProduction of chemicals (e.g. alcohols and ethers such as MTBE, ETBE and TAME) used as motor fuels additives\nGas separation\nSeparation of light fractions of the crude oil e.g. refinery fuel gas (RFG), liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)\nHydrogen consuming processes\nHydrocracking, hydrorefining, hydrotreatments, hydroconversion, hydroprocessing and hydrogenation processes\nHydrogen production\nPartial oxidation, steam reforming, gas heated reforming and hydrogen purification\nIsomerisation\nIsomerisation of hydrocarbon compounds C4, C5 and C6\nNatural gas plants\nNatural gas (NG) processing including liquefaction of NG\nPolymerisation\nPolymerisation, dimerisation and condensation\nPrimary distillation\nAtmospheric and vacuum distillation\nProduct treatments\nSweetening and final product treatments\nStorage and handling of refinery materials\nStorage, blending, loading and unloading of refinery materials\nVisbreaking and other thermal conversions\nThermal treatments such as visbreaking or thermal gas oil process\nWaste gas treatment\nTechniques to reduce or abate emissions to air\nWaste water treatment\nTechniques to treat waste water prior to release\nWaste management\nTechniques to prevent or reduce the generation of waste\nThese BAT conclusions do not address the following activities or processes:\nthe exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas;\nthe transportation of crude oil and natural gas;\nthe marketing and distribution of products.\nOther reference documents which may be relevant for the activities covered by these BAT conclusions are the following:\nReference document\nSubject\nCommon Waste Water and Waste Gas Treatment/Management Systems in the Chemical Sector (CWW)\nWaste water management and treatment techniques\nIndustrial Cooling Systems (ICS)\nCooling processes\nEconomics and Cross-media Effects (ECM)\nEconomics and cross-media effects of techniques\nEmissions from Storage (EFS)\nStorage, blending, loading and unloading of refinery materials\nEnergy Efficiency (ENE)\nEnergy efficiency and integrated refinery management\nLarge Combustion Plants (LCP)\nCombustion of conventional and commercial fuels\nLarge Volume Inorganic Chemicals — Ammonia, Acids and Fertilisers Industries (LVIC-AAF)\nSteam reforming and hydrogen purification\nLarge Volume Organic Chemical Industry (LVOC)\nEtherification process (MTBE, ETBE and TAME production)\nWaste Incineration (WI)\nWaste incineration\nWaste Treatment (WT)\nWaste treatment\nGeneral Principles of Monitoring (MON)\nMonitoring of emissions to air and water",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2014/738/annex/division/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:14:36.977162+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}