Meraux Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Valero
- Website: http://www.valero.com/
- List of Valero Refineries
- Location: Louisiana, USA
- Capacity: 6.75 million tons/annum & 135,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity: 10.2
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- The Valero Meraux Refinery, located on 550 acres in St. Bernard Parish southeast of New Orleans, is a complex refinery with a total throughput capacity of 135,000 barrels per day and significant hydro-processing capacity.
- Meraux's dock is located on the Mississippi River, about 40 miles from the Valero St. Charles Refinery.
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Vacuum Distillation, 50,000
- Fluidised Catalytic Cracker, 37,000
- Hydrocracker, 32,000
- Catalytic Reformer, 32,000
- ROSE Solvent Deasphalting, 18,000
- Naphtha Desulphurisation 35,000
- Kerosene Desulphurisation, 6,200
- Diesel Desulphurisation, 5,000
- Heavy Gasoline Desulphurisation, 7,500
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
Processes between 50 percent and 80 percent medium sour crude, with remainder typically light sweet crude
Products Produced
- Gasoline and distillate, but also petrochemicals, LPG, fuel oil and others
- Products can be shipped via the Colonial Oil Products Pipeline
Projects
- An expansion was concluded in 2007
- The expansion included a new hydrocracker unit, central control room and two new utility boilers; expansion of the crude oil processing capacity to 125,000 barrels per stream day (b/sd); expansion of naphtha hydrotreating capacity to 35,000 b/sd; expansion of the catalytic reforming capacity to 32,000 b/sd; and construction of a new sulfur recovery complex, including amine regeneration, sour water stripping and high efficiency sulfur recovery.
- ABB was responsible for engineering, procurement and construction for the project
Other Information
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History
- 1961 - Murphy Oil acquired the refinery
- 2003 - The ROSE unit was destroyed in a fire
- 2003 - Murphy expanded the refinery allowing the refinery to meet low-sulfur gasoline specifications which became effective January 1, 2008.
- 2005 - the Meraux, Louisiana refinery and associated assets were severely damaged by flooding and high winds caused by Hurricane Katrina.
- 2006 - Following a nine months shut-down for repairs the refinery was restarted
- 2010 - Murphy announced that it was to exit the downstream business
- 2011 - Murphy announced it was selling the refinery to Valero