Carson Los Angeles Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: BP
- Website: http://www.bp.com/
- List of BP Refineries
- Location: Carson, Los Angeles County, California, USA
- Capacity: 13.3 million tons/annum & 266.000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity: 13.2
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- A large and very complex refinery
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Vacuum Distillation - 140,000
- Delayed Coker - 67,100
- Fluidised Catalytic Cracker - 102,500
- Hydrocracker - 50,000
- Catalytic Reformer - 10,000 + 43,000
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- It processes ANS (Alaskan North Slope), Middle Eastern and West African crudes
Products Produced
- Gasoline - 6.3 million gallons/day
- Jet Fuel - 1.7 million gallons/day
- Diesel - 1.9 million gallons/day
- Fuel Gases - 675 thousand gallons/day
- Propylene - 65,000 lbs/day
- Calcined Coke - 1,000 tons/day
Ongoing Projects
- -
Other Information
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History
- 1938 - Refinery brought on stream
- 2000 - BP become owner following acquistion of ARCO
- 2006 - New Vacuum Unit brought onstream to replace outdated unit
- 2011 - BP announced it was seeking a buyer for the refinery
Relevant Links
- Carson Fact Sheet
- BP to Reshape US Downstream Business and Seek Buyers for Texas City and Carson Refineries
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