Citgo Lake Charles Refinery
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Summary Information

  • Ownership: Citgo (PDVSA)
  • Website: http://www.citgo.com/
  • Location: Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
  • Capacity: 22.0 million tons/annum & 440,000 bbl/day
  • Nelson Complexity:
  • Refining Depth:

Brief Description

  • The CITGO Lake Charles Refinery is a modern, deep-conversion facility with a processing capacity of 440,000 barrels of crude oil per day. The fifth largest refinery in the nation, it’s particularly suited to process heavy crudes into high-octane, unleaded gasoline.

Refining Units

  • Atmospheric Distillation
  • Vacuum Distillation, 235,000
  • Delayed Coker, 99,000
  • Flıuidised Catalytic Cracker, 3*50,000
  • Hydrocracker, 42,000
  • Catalytic Reformer, 58,000 + 52,800
  • Naphtha Desulphurisation, 123,000
  • Gasoline Desulphurisation, 77,000
  • Kerosine Desulphurisation, 29,000
  • Diesel Desulphurisation, 117,500

Terminal Capacity

  • Crude Oil:
  • Refined Products:

Crude Supply

  • Can process heavy and sour crudes
  • Uses Venezuelan crude
  • It also processes sweet crude from domestic producers, primarily in Texas and Louisiana

Products Produced

  • Gasoline, Diesel, LPG, Coke, Jet Fuel

Ongoing Projects

  • -

Other Information

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History

  • 1944 - Refinery commissioned
  • 2004 - CITGO invested $500 million in the Crude Vacuum Expansion Project (CVEP)/Tier II Program to increase its crude processing capacity to 425,000 barrels per day (bpd), an increase of 105,000 bpd
  • 2006 - The Lake Charles Manufacturing Complex completed a cat feed hydrotreater conversion project

Relevant Links

  1. Refinery Webpage
  2. Citgo Is Said to Plan January Work on Louisiana Refinery Catalytic Cracker
  3. Lake Area Industry Alliance

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