The refinery has a Nelson complexity index of 9.5 and a capacity is 16.3 million tonnes per year or 276,000 barrels per day of crude oil.
In the early 1950s the Polish government wished to develop a petrochemicals industry for the country, to reduce reliance on imports.
[1] In Poland there were only five small specialist refineries, which together produced less than one million tonnes annually.
The Oil Refining Industry oversight body began planning a new one million tonne per year facility.
With a design capacity of 3,300 tonnes of vacuum residue feedstock a day the unit increased the overall petrol and diesel yields of the refinery.