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# [http://vocuspr.vocus.com/VocusPR30/Newsroom/Query.aspx?SiteName=Citgo&Entity=PRAsset&SF_PRAsset_PRAssetID_EQ=115678&XSL=PressRelease&Cache=True&SubMenu=Releases CITGO Opens Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel Unit at Lemont Refinery] | # [http://vocuspr.vocus.com/VocusPR30/Newsroom/Query.aspx?SiteName=Citgo&Entity=PRAsset&SF_PRAsset_PRAssetID_EQ=115678&XSL=PressRelease&Cache=True&SubMenu=Releases CITGO Opens Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel Unit at Lemont Refinery] | ||
# [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-17/buckeye-says-crude-pipeline-can-meet-needs-of-lemont-refinery.html Buckeye Says Crude Pipeline Can Meet Needs of Lemont Refinery] | # [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-17/buckeye-says-crude-pipeline-can-meet-needs-of-lemont-refinery.html Buckeye Says Crude Pipeline Can Meet Needs of Lemont Refinery] | ||
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Latest revision as of 10:20, 13 March 2020
Contents
Summary Information
- Ownership: Citgo (PDVSA)
- Website: http://www.citgo.com/
- List of PDVSA Refineries
- Location: Lemont, Illinois, USA
- Capacity: 8.35 million tons/annum & 167,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation, 167,000 bpd
- Vacuum Distillation, 75,000 bpd
- Delayed Coker, 46,420 bpd
- Fluidised Catalytic Cracker, 69,000 bpd
- Catalytic Reforming, 32,200 bpd
- Naphtha Hydrotreating, 95,700 bpd
- Kerosene Hydrotreating, 15,000 bpd
- Diesel Hydrotreating, 35,500 bpd
- Sulphur Recovery Unit
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- The refinery processes heavy Venezuelan crude produced by Citgo's parent company
- The crude is supplied from the Shell Lockport Tank Farm via the Buckeye pipeline
Products Produced
- LPG, motor gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel and home heating oil.
- Xylenes, Toluene, Molten Sulfur, Petroleum Coke
- The CITGO Lemont Refinery is able to produce 100 percent ULSD
Projects
- A project to produce ULSD was completed in September 2010
Other Information
- Citgo is a subsidiary of Venezuelan State Oil Company, PDVSA
History
- 1920s - Original Refinery Built
- 1928 - Refinery purchased by Globe Oil & Refining Co and expanded to 38,000 bbl/day
- 1954 - Refinery acquired by Pure Oil Co.; crude capacity expanded to 53,000 bbl/day
- 1970 - Refinery expanded to over 100,000 bbl/day
- 1997 - Becomes 100% subsidiary of PDVSA
- 2010 - Diesel Desulphurisation unit commissioned