Come By Chance Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Braya Renewable Fuels
- Website: https://brayafuels.com/
- Location: Newfoundland, Canada
- Capacity: 6.75 million tons/annum & 115,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- The North Atlantic refinery is a 115,000 barrel per day hydrocracking refinery, optimally configured to process medium sour crude oil (24-34° API, 1-3% sulphur). As a Clean Fuels refinery, 100% of North Atlantic’s gasoline and ultra low sulphur diesel (ULSD) products meet or exceed current and future anticipated environmentally driven specifications.
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation - 115,000 bpd
- Hydrocracker - 38,000 bpd
- Visbreaker
- Diesel Desulphurisation
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- The refinery purchases and processes a medium gravity, sour grade of crude oil which is very similar in quality to the oil that Harvest produces in western Canada
- The company can economically source crude oil and other feedstock from numerous locations, including the Middle East, Latin America and Russia
Products Produced
- Able to produce 100% RBOB gasoline and 100% ULSD (current ULSD product meets 2010 Euro 5 standards)
Ongoing Projects
- In 2011, the refinery will be debottlenecked to increase capacity to 120,000 bpd
- Harvest energy is considering a major upgrade and expansion of the refinery
- See Come By Chance Refinery Expansion Project
- Conversion to a biorefinery
Other Information
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History
- 1974 - Refinery Commissioned
- 1990 - Hydrocracker commissioned
- 2006 - Refinery purchased by Harvest Energy
- 2008 - Visbreaker Debottlenecking project completed
- 2009 - Harvest energy aquired by KNOC
- 2014 - Refinery aquired by SilverRange and operated as North Atlantic Refining Ltd (NARL)
- 2020 - Irving agree to buy NARL.
- 2020 - Sale to Irving collapses, and the refinery is permanently closed.
- 2021 - Site is purchased by Braya (owned by Cresta Fund Mgmt), and a project to convert to a biorefinery begins.
- 2024 - Commissioning of the biorefinery.
Relevant Links
- Harvest Energy Refining & Marketing
- Harvest Eenergy Investment Opportunities
- Harvest Energy Trust Agrees to C$4.1 Billion Sale to Korea National Oil Corporation
- Harvest Operations Announces Sale of Newfoundland Refinery and Related Marketing and Retail Operations
- Irving Oil inks deal to buy NARL’s Come-by-Chance refinery, other assets
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