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: Upgrade
- 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: 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
page revision: 12, last edited: 10 Mar 2013 19:05