El Paso Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Western Refining
- Website: http://www.wnr.com/
- Location: El Paso, Texas
- Capacity: 6.25 million tons/annum & 125,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity: 7.9
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- A small/medium scale medium complexity refinery, the combination of two old refineries
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- FCCU - 29,500 barrels per day,
- Alkylation - 10,000 barrels per day
- Reforming - 18,000 barrels per day
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
- Total: approximately 4.3 million barrels
Crude Supply
- Crude oil is delivered to the El Paso refinery via a 450-mile crude oil pipeline owned and operated by Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, (Kinder Morgan).
- The system handles both sweet (WTI) and sour (WTS) crude oil.
Products Produced
Ongoing Projects
- The company is developing the Delaware Basin System, to increase logistics capacity for crude for the refinery
- A 40 Mile crude pipeline is being constructed to supply Shale Oil to the refinery
Other Information
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History
- 1928 - The "North" refinery was originally built by Standard Oil of California
- 1931 - The "South" refinery was originally built by the Texas Company
- 1972 - The North Refinery was subsequently modernized with the addition of a naphtha hydrotreater, catalytic reformer and sulfur plant
- 1993 - The refinery was originally two facilities but the operations of the two plants were combined
Relevant Links
- Western Refining, Refineries
- Western Refining Announces Temporary Suspension of Refining Operations at Its El Paso Refinery Due to Extreme Weather Conditions
- Western Refining Begins Startup of Its El Paso Refinery
- Western Refining Announces Start-Up of Delaware Basin Logistics Project
- Western Refining Announces New Delaware Basin Pipeline Project
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