Pointe A Pierre Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Petrotrin
- Website: http://www.petrotrin.com/
- Location: West coast of Trinidad
- Capacity: 8.75 million tons/annum & 175,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
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Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Vacuum crude distillation,
- visbreaking,
- naphtha catalytic reforming,
- catalytic cracking,
- hydrotreating,
- alkylation
- MTBE synthesis
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- Some of the crude is supplied from domestic production, mostly from Petrotrin's own fields
Products Produced
- LPG, Gasoline, Dieseli Jet Fuel, Fuel Oil
Ongoing Projects
- For details see Pointe A Pierre Refinery Project
- Petrotrin finished a gasoline optimisation project in 2010
- The company has signed an agreement (November 2009) with Samsung Engineering to build an ULSD plant. The plant is expected to be completed in 2012
Other Information
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History
- 1917 - the first distillation unit at Pointe-a-Pierre
- 1985 - Texaco sold the Pointe-a-Pierre Refinery along with other assets to the Government
Relevant Links
- Tecna Oil And Gas Processing References
- Evolution Chart of Petrotrin
- Trinidad oil fields running low - Petrotrin deputised to find new supplies
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