Big Spring Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Alon
- Website: http://www.alonusa.com/
- List of Alon Refineries
- Location: Big Spring, Texas, USA
- Capacity: 3.5 million tons/annum & 67,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- A small medium complexity refinery,
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit - 24,000
- Reformer unit
- Alkylation unit
- Diesel Hydrotreater
- Jet fuel hydrotreater
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- It obtains domestic crude from the Permian Basin and Gulf Coast, and foreign crude via the Amdel Pipeline
- The refinery is connected to the Centurion Crude Oil Pipeline
Products Produced
- ultra-low sulfur gasoline, ultra-low sulfur diesel, jet fuel, petrochemicals, petrochemical feedstocks, asphalt
Ongoing Projects
- The vacuum distillation column is being revamped, to increase middle distillate production. It will be completed in 2Q2014
Other Information
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History
- 2000 - Alon acquired the refinery from Fina
- 2003 - Low-sulfur gasoline unit commissioned
- 2005 - ULSD project launched
- 2008 - An explosion and fire led to a shutdown of the refinery and injured four workers
Relevant Links
- Commonwealth selected for ALON USA Big Spring ULSD project
- Alon USA Announces Restart of Big Spring Refinery Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit
- Alon USA Provides Update on Big Spring Refinery Explosion
- ALON USA Launches Production at New Low-Sulfur Gasoline Unit
- TotalFinaElf signs final agreement for sale of Downstream assets in US
- Alon USA Announces Start-Up of Big Spring Refinery in Hydroskimming Mode and Provides Operational Update
- Alon USA Partners Postpones Turnaround at the Big Spring Refinery
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