Yorktown Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Western Refining
- Website: http://www.wnr.com/
- Location: Yorktown, Virginia, USA
- Capacity: 3.5 million tons/annum & 70,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity: 11.4
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- A small medium complexity refinery.
- As of September 2010, the plant is mothballed
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Vacuum Distillation - 41,500
- Delayed Coker - 22,500
- Fluidised Catalytic Cracker - 30,000
- Catalytic Reformer - 12,000
- Polymerization unit
- Desulphurisation
- Naphtha - 12,000
- Gasoline - 30,000
- Diesel - 12,000
- Other - 18,960
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- Most of the Yorktown refinery’s feedstocks come from Canada, the North Sea, South America, and the Far East.
- All of the crude oil supplied to this refinery is delivered by barge directly to the dock.
- Yorktown imports other feedstocks to supplement the processing units and blendstocks to optimize blending operations.
Products Produced
- Gasoline, diesel, propane, butane, heavy fuel oils, and petroleum coke
- Products can be distributed via the Colonial Oil Products Pipeline
Ongoing Projects
- -
Other Information
- The company announced that it was mothballing the refinery in September 2010
History
- 1997 - Amoco announces Alkylation project
- 1998 - Alkylation project cancelled
- 2002 - Giant Industries acquires the refinery from BP
- 2006 - Announcement that S Zorb™ Sulfur Removal Technology is to Be Installed
- 2010 - Refinery temporarily closed
- 2011 - Idled refinery sold to Plains All American Pipeline
Relevant Links
- Amoco and Haldor Topsoe Plan New Alkylation Unit
- Giant Industries, Inc Announces Acquisition Of Yorktown, Virginia Refinery From BP
- Western Refining, Refining segment page
- Western Refining Announces Completion of Refining Operations Shutdown at Yorktown
- Western Refining Investor Presentation, May 2011
- Western Refining Announces Sale of Assets for $220 Million
- Western Refining Closes on Sale of Assets and Completes Redemption of All Outstanding Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes
- ConocoPhillips’ S Zorb™ Sulfur Removal Technology to Be Installed at Giant Industries’ Yorktown Refinery
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