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=== Brief Description === | === Brief Description === | ||
* A large and complex refinery | * A large and complex refinery | ||
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* Atmospheric Distillation - 235,000 | * Atmospheric Distillation - 235,000 | ||
* Vacuum Crude Distillation - 119,400 | * Vacuum Crude Distillation - 119,400 | ||
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* Hydrogen Generation, | * Hydrogen Generation, | ||
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=== Terminal Capacity === | === Terminal Capacity === | ||
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Revision as of 11:31, 4 January 2021
Contents
Summary Information
- Ownership: Ownership: Motiva (Shell/Saudi Aramco)
- Website: http://www.motivaenterprises.com/
- Location: 30 miles southeast of Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Capacity: 11.75 million tons/annum & 235,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- A large and complex refinery
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation - 235,000
- Vacuum Crude Distillation - 119,400
- Fluid Catalytic Cracking - 92,000
- Resid Hydrocracking - 52,000
- Catalytic Reforming - 40,000
- Alkylation,
- Hydrotreating
- Naphtha - 98,000
- Kerosine - 39,800
- Diesel - 70,000
- Heavy Gas Oil - 40,000
- Hydrogen Generation,
- Sulfur Recovery
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- Crude oil is delivered predominantly by pipeline, but can also be delivered by ships at two docks on the Mississippi
- There is a direct connection to Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP)
Products Produced
- LPG, Gasoline, Jet Fuel, Diesel
- Products can be shipped via the Bengal Oil Products Pipeline
Projects
- The refinery is going to be integrated with the Norco Refinery to create a more efficient refining system
=== Other Information
- Hydrogen is supplied by Air Products hydrogen pipeline network
History
- 1967 - Refinery commissioned by Texaco
- 1979 -A hydrotreater, sulfur complex, three crude oil storage tanks and an additional dock were added
- 1984 - The plant capacity was approximately doubled with an upgrade
- 1989 - Saudi Aramco became a partner
- 1998 - The plant became a part of Motiva Enterprises, adding Shell as a family partner
- 2004 - Air products builds hydrogen plant
- 2011 - Air Products announces connection of the refinery to their hydrogen pipeline network
- 2015 - Louisiana Refining System project launched
- 2016 - Shell takes ownership of the refinery
- 2020 - Shell announces that the refinery is to close
Links
- Refinery Webpage
- Air Products to Supply Motiva and Marathon Refineries with Hydrogen from New Louisiana Production Facility
- Air Products Gulf Coast Pipeline Fills Additional Hydrogen Requirement
- Air Products Supplying Additional Hydrogen Required by Motiva from Gulf Coast Pipeline Asset
- Motiva Integrates Refineries to Create Louisiana Refining System
- Saudi Refining, Inc. and Shell sign letter of intent to separate Motiva assets
