Valero Port Arthur Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Valero
- Website: http://www.valero.com/
- Company Refineries: Valero Refineries
- Location: Port Arthur Texas
- Capacity: 15.5 million tons/annum & 310,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
Refining Units
- CDU
- VDU
- Delayed coker - 95,000 bbl/day
- Hydrocracker
- Alkylation unit
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- Has ability to process 100 percent sour crude oil, of which up to 80 percent can be heavy sour crude oil
- Under a long-term crude oil supply agreement the company purchases Maya Crude Oil from Pemex
Products Produced
- Conventional, premium and reformulated gasoline before oxygenate blending, as well as diesel, jet fuel, petrochemicals, petroleum coke and sulfur
Ongoing Projects
Other Information
- Refinery production distributed into the Colonial Pipeline, Explorer Pipeline and Teppco Pipeline or across the refinery docks into ships or barges
History
- 1901 - Refinery commissioned
- 2005 - One of four refineries acquired in the purchase of Premcor
- 2006 - Expansion project increased throughput capacity from 250,000 bpd to approximately 310,000
bpd, and expanded the coker unit capacity from 80,000 bpd to 105,000 bpd
- 2008 - Fluor awarded engineering, procurement, construction and construction management services contract for refinery upgrade
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