Ardmore Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Valero
- Website: http://www.valero.com/
- List of Valero Refineries
- Location: Ardmore, Oklahoma, USA
- Capacity: 4.5 million tons/annum & 87,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- A small medium complexity refinery, capable of processing a range of crude oils
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Vacuum Distillation - 32,000
- Fluidised Catalytic Cracker - 30,000
- Hydrocracker - 12,000
- Catalytic Reformer - 21,000
- Hydrotreatment
- Naphtha - 26,500
- Diesel - 32,000
- Heavy Gasoil - 34,450
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products: The refinery has more than 2.4 million barrels of refined product storage
Crude Supply
- The plant uses local crude and oil transported by pipeline from the Gulf Coast
- It can also receive crude oil from Cushing
- It can process crude oils of 1.6 - 1.7 wt% sulfur average compared to 1.2-1.3 wt% sulfur prior to completion of the sour crude upgrade project
Products Produced
- Produces a wide range of petroleum products including gasoline, kerosene, jet fuel, sulfur, diesel, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), propylene, butane and asphalt
- The Ardmore refinery complies with the Tier 2 Gasoline requirement because of its deep de-sulfurization of FCC feed
- The Wynnewood products system consists of a 30-mile, 12-inch refined petroleum products pipeline with 90,000 barrels per day of capacity and two tanks with a total of 180,000 barrels of storage capacity. The system connects the Ardmore refinery to the Magellan Oil Products Pipeline and is the primary distribution outlet for the refinery.
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Other Information
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History
- 2002 - One of six refineries acquired by Valero in the purchase of Ultramar Diamond Shamrock
