Port Arthur Total Upgrade Project

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Summary Information

• Ownership: Total
• Website: http://www.total.com/en/
• Wiki Page: Total Port Arthur Refinery
• Location: Port Arthur, Texas
• Capacity:
  • Before: 9.0 million tons/annum & 174,000 bbl/day
  • Before: 12.0 million tons/annum & 232,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Project Stage: Start Up
• Expected Completion: 2011
• Budget:

The Project

• Project Type:
• Project Summary: Total's Port Arthur project will expand heavy and sour crude oil processing, adding 3 million tons per year of low sulfur automotive diesel fuel to the refinery's production and raise total output for all products from the refinery to about 12 million tons.
• Main Contractors:
  • Fluor Corporation was awarded a contract for engineering, procurement and construction. Fluor's scope of work includes building a coker, a desulfurization unit, a vacuum distillation unit and other related infrastructure.

Refining Units

• Coker - 50,000 bpd
• Vacuum Distillation Unit
• Diesel Hydrotreater
• Coker Naphtha Hydrotreater
• Hydrogen Purification - PSA
• Sulfur Recovery Unit

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• After the upgrade the refinery will be able to process heavier and more sour crudes

Products Produced

• The refinery is expected to produce more than 1 million tons of petcoke annually

History

• 2008 - Fluor awarded EPC contract
• 2011 - Coker unit start up

Other Information

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Relevant Links

• Deep Conversion Project, Fact Sheet
• Total announces expansion of Port Arthur refinery
• Total starting up new Port Arthur refinery coker
• Fluor Wins Total's Port Arthur Deep Conversion Project
• Kinder Morgan Grows Petcoke Terminal Network with Port Arthur Acquisition

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