Trainer Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Monroe Energy (Delta)
- Website: http://monroe-energy.com/
- Location: Delaware River in Trainer, about 10 miles southwest of downtown Philadelphia
- Capacity: 9.25 million tons/annum & 185,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- Trainer is a medium sized, medium complexity refinery, that processes mainly light sweet crude, and produces high quality transportation fuels
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation, 185,000
- Vacuum Distillation, 73,000
- Fluidised Catalytic Cracker, 53,000
- Hydrocracker, 23,000
- Catalytic Reformer, 50,000
- Desulphurisation:
- Naphtha, 77,100
- Jet Fuel, 23,300
- Diesel, 27,300
- Other, 4,200
- Heavy Gas Oil, 40,000
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- Trainer Refinery processes mainly light, low-sulfur crude oil.
- Trainer receives crude oil from West and North Africa and Canada.
- At least a third of the crude is to be supplied by the Bakken
Products Produced
- gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel, home heating oil, residual fuel oil and liquefied petroleum gas
- Refined products primarily are distributed to customers in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey via pipeline, barge and railcar
Ongoing Projects
- Since the refinery was sold, it is being reconfigured to produce more Jet Fuel and Monroe is looking for ways to use more Bakken Crude
Other Information
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History
- 2001 - Phillips acquired the refinery through purchase of Tosco
- 2011 - ConocoPhillips announces that it is looking to sell the refinery
- 2012 - Delta airline announces that it is to acquire the refinery
- 2013 - The refinery receives its first delivery of Bakken Crude
- 2014 - Bridger signs 5 year agreement to supply Bakken Crude
Relevant Links
- Conocophillips Refining & Marketing
- Phillips Closes on Acquisition of Tosco; Panatier to Head Phillips 66 Company, Combined RM&T Business
- ConocoPhillips Seeks Buyer for Trainer, Pa., Refinery
- Delta Subsidiary to Acquire Trainer Refinery Complex
- Dalrymple Announces First Shipment of Bakken Crude Arrives at Delta's Oil Refinery in Pennsylvania
- Monroe Energy, Bridger agreement to supply 65,000 barrels of crude daily to Trainer refinery
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