Clyde Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Shell
- Website: http://www.shell.com.au/
- Location: West of Sydney, Australia
- Capacity: 3.75 million tons/annum & 75,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- A small scale medium complexity refinery
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Fluidised catalytic cracking unit
- continuous catalytic reformer (platformer),
- diesel desulphurization unit
- benzene saturation unit
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- Crude oil is received from Shell’s Gore Bay Terminal, which is located on ten hectares of land in Greenwich, via an 18 km 300 mm diameter pipeline.
Products Produced
- Petrol (20% being high octane grades);
- Diesel fuel;
- Jet fuel;
- Bitumen,
- LPG
Ongoing Projects
- Shell has announced its decision to stop refining operations at the Clyde Refinery and convert it and the Gore Bay Terminal into a fuel import facility before mid 2013
Other Information
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History
- 1920s - Refinery commissioned
- 1928 - Shell acquires the refinery
- 2002 - An upgrade of the diesel desulphurization unit (HDS) was completed
- 2005 - Clean Petrol Project completed with commissioning of benzene saturation unit
- 2011 - Shell proposes to close the refinery
Relevant Links
- Refinery Webpage
- Shell Mogas Improvement Project
- Shell Proposal on future of Clyde refinery
- Shell to cease refining at Clyde
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