Aruba Refinery
Summary Information
- Ownership: Valero
- Website: http://www.valero.com/
- List of Valero Refineries
- Location: San Nicolas, Aruba
- Capacity: 11.75 million tons/annum & 235,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation Units
- Vacuum Distillation Unit - 160,000
- Delayed Cokers - 64,000
- Visbreaker - 42,000
- Hydrotreatment units
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
- Total: Sixty-three storage tanks with almost 12 million barrels of storage capacity
Crude Supply
- Lower-cost heavy sour crude oil including Maya Crude Oil
Products Produced
- High quality distillates
- Semi finished motor fuels to be upgraded in Valero's other refineries
Ongoing Projects
- Valero plans to build an the Aruba LNG Terminal to supply the refinery with natural gas
Other Information
- Valero is looking for a buyer for this refinery, and mothballed it in 2009
- They mothballed it again in 2012 and may convert it into a storage facility
History
- Commissioned in 1929 by Standard Oil
- 1985 - Shut down by Exxon
- 1990 - Restarted by Coastal Oil
- 2004 - Purchased by Valero from El Paso Energy
- 2009 - Refinery mothballed for economic reasons
- 2010 - Valero announces the restart of the refinery
- 2012 - Valero announces indefinite mothballing of the refinery
Relevant Links
- Refinery Webpage
- Valero Enters Into Purchase Agreement To Acquire El Paso's Aruba Refinery And Related Assets
- Valero plans to shut Aruba refinery up to 3 months
- Valero Announces Plans for LNG Project, Decision to Restart Aruba Refinery Units
- Valero Energy to Suspend Refining Operations At Aruba
page revision: 12, last edited: 13 Apr 2012 06:05
