Shell Anacortes Refinery
Contents
Summary Information
- Ownership: Shell
- Website: http://www.shellpsr.com/
- Location: Puget Sound, Washington, USA
- Capacity: 7.25 million tons/annum & 145,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
=== Brief Description
- A medium to large complex refinery
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Vacuum Distillation - 65,500
- Delayed Coker - 25,700
- Fluidised Catalytic Cracking - 58,000
- Catalytic Reformer - 32,700
- Hydrotreating
- Naphtha - 32,900
- Gasoline - 37,400
- Kerosene - 16,000
- Diesel - 44,200
- Isomerisation Unit
- Sulphur Recovery Unit (SRU)
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- The plant processes crude oil from Alaska’s North Slope and from central and western Canada.
- Canadian crude is received via the Trans Mountain Pipeline
Products Produced
- Gasoline, diesel oil, jet fuel, propane, coke, sulfur
Projects
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Other Information
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History
- 1958 - The refinery was constructed by the Texas Company 45,000 barrel per day
- 2002 - when Texaco merged with Chevron, Shell Oil Products US acquired full ownership of the Equilon refinery
- 2004 - Shell choose Exxon scrubbing technology
- 2005 - Isomerisation Unit Commissioned
Links
- Refinery webpage
- Shell Puget Sound Refinery Fact Sheet
- Shell Says Puget Sound Refinery Processing Units Shut
- Economic Contribution of Washington State Refineries
- JH Kelly, Shell ISOM Project Anacortes, WA
- JH Kelly, Shell SRU 4 Project Anacortes, WA
- ExxonMobil's Wet Gas Scrubbing Technology Selected for Shell's Puget Sound Refinery