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

• -

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

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

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