Aruba Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Valero
- Website: http://www.valero.com/
- List of Valero Refineries
- Location: San Nicolas, Aruba
- Capacity: 11.75 million tons/annum & 235,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
+++ Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation Units
- Vacuum Distillation Unit - 160,000
- Delayed Cokers - 64,000
- Visbreaker - 42,000
- Hydrotreatment units
+++ Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
- Total: Sixty-three storage tanks with almost 12 million barrels of storage capacity
+++ Crude Supply
- Lower-cost heavy sour crude oil including Maya Crude Oil
+++ Products Produced
- High quality distillates
- Semi finished motor fuels to be upgraded in Valero's other refineries
+++ Ongoing Projects
- Valero did plan to build an the [[[Aruba LNG Terminal]]] to supply the refinery with natural gas
+++ Other Information
- The refinery has been closed down
+++ History
- Commissioned in 1929 by Standard Oil
- 1985 - Shut down by Exxon
- 1990 - Restarted by Coastal Oil
- 2004 - Purchased by Valero from El Paso Energy
- 2009 - Refinery mothballed for economic reasons
- 2010 - Valero announces the restart of the refinery
- 2012 - Valero announces indefinite mothballing of the refinery
- 2012 - Valero announces the layoff of workers and conversion to terminal
Links
- Refinery Webpage
- Valero Enters Into Purchase Agreement To Acquire El Paso's Aruba Refinery And Related Assets
- Valero plans to shut Aruba refinery up to 3 months
- Valero Announces Plans for LNG Project, Decision to Restart Aruba Refinery Units
- Valero Energy to Suspend Refining Operations At Aruba
- Valero Energy to Convert Aruba Refinery to Terminalling Operation
