Quebec City Refinery
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Summary Information
- Also known as Jean Gaulin Refinery
- Ownership: Ultramar (Valero)
- Website: http://www.ultramar.ca/
- List of Valero Refineries
- Location: Quebec, Canada
- Capacity: 13.25 million tons/annum & 265,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- The refinery is a large medium complexity plant, capable of producing high specification products
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation - 170,000 + 95,000
- Vacuum Distillation - 48,000
- Fluidised Catalytic Cracker - 65,000
- Hydrotreating
- Light Naphtha - 30,000
- Heavy Naphtha - 48,000
- Gasoline - 46,000
- Kerosene - 40,000
- Distillate - 70,000
- Isomerisation - 29,000
- Catalytic Reformer - 20,000 + 32,000
- Polymerisation - 13,000
- LPG Splitter - 20,000
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- The refinery relies on foreign crude oil for feedstock, which is received by ship at its deepwater dock on the St. Lawrence River.
- The reversal of the Enbridge Line 9 Oil Pipeline will bring Western Canadian crude oils to the refinery
Products Produced
- LPG, Gasoline, Diesel, Jet Fuel, Bunker Fuel
Projects
- See Pipeline Saint-Laurent Project
- Ultramar is building a pipeline from the refinery to terminals in Montreal
Other Information
- Ultramar is a subsidiary of Valero
History
- 1971 - Refinery Commissioned
- 2002 - One of six refineries acquired by Valero in the purchase of Ultramar Diamond Shamrock
- 2002 - Refinery capacity increased to 265,000 bbl/day
- 2004 - Ultramar completed investments of over $300 million, which has enabled the Jean-Gaulin refinery to produce low-sulfur content gasoline
- 2006 - The company completed investments of $300 million to produce diesel fuel with a very low sulfur content
- 2010 - Valero’s Board of Directors gives the go-ahead for work to proceed on the Pipeline Saint-Laurent Project
