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

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

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