Citgo Lake Charles Refinery

Summary Information

• Ownership: Citgo (PDVSA)
• Website: http://www.citgo.com/
• List of PDVSA Refineries
• Location: Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
• Capacity: 22.0 million tons/annum & 440,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Refining Depth:

Brief Description

• The CITGO Lake Charles Refinery is a modern, deep-conversion facility with a processing capacity of 440,000 barrels of crude oil per day. The fifth largest refinery in the nation, it’s particularly suited to process heavy crudes into high-octane, unleaded gasoline.

Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation
• Vacuum Distillation, 235,000
• Delayed Coker, 99,000
• Flıuidised Catalytic Cracker, 3*50,000
• Hydrocracker, 42,000
• Catalytic Reformer, 58,000 + 52,800
• Naphtha Desulphurisation, 123,000
• Gasoline Desulphurisation, 77,000
• Kerosine Desulphurisation, 29,000
• Diesel Desulphurisation, 117,500

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• Can process heavy and sour crudes
• Uses Venezuelan crude
• It also processes sweet crude from domestic producers, primarily in Texas and Louisiana

Products Produced

• Gasoline, Diesel, LPG, Coke, Jet Fuel

Projects

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Other Information

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History

• 1944 - Refinery commissioned
• 2004 - CITGO invested $500 million in the Crude Vacuum Expansion Project (CVEP)/Tier II Program to increase its crude processing capacity to 425,000 barrels per day (bpd), an increase of 105,000 bpd
• 2006 - The Lake Charles Manufacturing Complex completed a cat feed hydrotreater conversion project

Links

1. Refinery Webpage
2. Citgo Is Said to Plan January Work on Louisiana Refinery Catalytic Cracker
3. Lake Area Industry Alliance