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Summary Information
- Ownership: Ergon
- Website: http://www.ergon.com/
- Location: Newell, West Virginia
- Capacity: 1.0 million tons/annum & 20,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- A small scale refinery, the Newell refinery utilizes high pressure hydrotreating technology to produce highly-refined paraffinic process and base oils, waxes, ultra-low sulfur gasoline and diesel fuels, kerosene solvents and petroleum resins from local Appalachian grade crude.
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation, 20,000
- Vacuum Distillation, 8,600
- Catalytic Reforming, 3,400
- Naphtha Desulphurisation, 4,300
- Diesel Desulphurisation, 8,000
- Gas Oil Desulphurisation, 6,300
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- EWV processes 100% Appalachian grade paraffinic crude oils, particularly Pennsylvania grade gathered from approximately 40,000 facilities throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky and New York.
- The crude is transferred by truck or pipeline to gathering centers in Magnolia, Ohio; Marietta, Ohio; and Mercer, Pennsylvania before moving on to the refinery via truck, barge, and pipeline.
Products Produced
- Gasoline, Diesel, process and base oils
Ongoing Projects
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Other Information
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History
- 1972 - Refinery commissioned
- 1997 - Ergon acquired the refinery from Quaker State
- 2005 - Fluor Corporation was selected by Ergon-West Virginia Inc. to provide engineering and procurement services for an ultra low sulfur diesel unit
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