Three Rivers Refinery

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Summary Information

• Ownership: Valero
• Website: http://www.valero.com/
  • Company Refineries: Valero Refineries
• Location: located about halfway between San Antonio and Corpus Christi, Texas
• Capacity: 5.0 million tons/annum & 100,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Refining Depth:

Brief Description

• A medium sized medium complexity refinery

Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation
• Vacuum distillation units
• Catalytic reformer
• Fluidized catalytic cracking unit (FCC)
• Hydrocracker unit
• Gas oil hydrotreater
• Hydrogen plant
• Alkylation unit

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• Connected to the Corpus Christi refinery complex by a 70-mile pipeline, which has the capacity to deliver 120,000 BPD of crude oil
• Crude from Eagle Ford Shale Oil Field in South Texas is replacing foreign crude at the refinery

Products Produced

• Liquefied petroleum gases (LPGs), propylene, gasoline, kerosene, jet fuel, diesel fuel, No. 6 fuel oil, petrochemicals and sulfur.

Ongoing Projects

• NuStar Energy L.P.is investing in pipeline revamps and construction to supply crude from the Eagle Ford Shale Oil Field to the refinery.
• The pipelines will be completed in 2012

Other Information

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History

• 1974 - Operations at the refinery commenced
• 1978 - catalytic reformer added
• 1979 - Vacuum distillation unit was added
• 1981 - A fluidized catalytic cracking unit (FCC) and alkylation unit were added.
• 1990 & 1992 the crude unit was expanded again.
• 1991- A continuous catalytic reformer was added in .
• 1993 - A hydrocracker unit was built
• 1995 and 1996 - A gas oil hydrotreater and hydrogen plant were moved to the plant site
• 2002 - One of six refineries acquired in the purchase of Ultramar Diamond Shamrock

Relevant Links

• Refinery Webpage
• Valero CEO says Eagle Ford crude use increasing
• NuStar, Valero Agree to South Texas Pipeline Projects Aimed at Increasing Transportation of Eagle Ford and Other Crude Sources

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