Tesoro Anacortes Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Tesoro
- Website: http://www.tsocorp.com/
- List of Tesoro Refineries
- Location: About 70 miles north of Seattle on the Puget Sound
- Capacity: 6.0 million tons/annum & 120,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
Refining Units
- CDU - 120,000 bbl/day
- VDU - 47,000 bbl/day
- FCC - 55,000 bbl/day
- Solvent Deasphalting - 30,000 bbl/day
- Catalytic Reformer - 26,000 bbl/day
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- It receives crude feedstock via pipeline from Canada and by tanker from Alaska and foreign sources.
- It is currently receiving a very small amount of oil from the Bakken. Tesoro plans to increase this to 30,000 barrels per day following an investment in rail transportation capabilities
Products Produced
- gasoline, jet fuel and diesel, liquefied petroleum gas and asphalt
Ongoing Projects
- A naphtha isomerization project, and a mixed xylenes project are under construction
Other Information
- At approximately 12:30 a.m. Pacific time April 2nd, 2010, a fire occurred at the Tesoro Anacortes refinery. The incident was on a small section of the refinery following minor, routine maintenance.
- The fire was contained at around 2 a.m
- 7 people were killed in the incident.
History
- 2010 - A heat exchanger in the refinery's Naphtha Hydrotreater unit ruptured, causing an explosion and fire that fatally injured seven employees
- 2012 - Tesoro Corporation Closes the Sale of the Rail Unloading Facility to Tesoro Logistics
- 2013 - Tesoro announces the construction of a new rail unloading terminal
- 2014 - New Xylene project
Relevant Links
- Refinery Webpage
- NPRA United States Refining and Storage Capacity Report
- Tesoro Anacortes Refinery Incident Update
- Tesoro Corporation Announces Plans to Supply Bakken Crude Oil from North Dakota to its Anacortes, Washington Refinery
- Tesoro Releases TOP Report on 2010 Incident at Anacortes Refinery
- Tesoro Corporation Closes the Sale of the Anacortes Rail Unloading Facility to Tesoro Logistics
- Tesoro And Savage Announce Joint Venture To Construct And Operate Crude-By-Rail Unloading And Marine Loading Facility
- Tesoro Corporation Announces New Petrochemical Feedstock Project
- Tesoro Corporation Board of Directors Approves Two Projects at the Anacortes Refinery
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