Chalmette Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Chalmette Refining, (PBF / PDVSA)
- Website: https://www.pbfenergy.com/
- List of PBF Refineries
- List of PDVSA Refineries
- Location: Chalmette, Louisiana
- Capacity: 9.6 million tons/annum & 192,500 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity: 12.7
- Refining Depth:
+++ Brief Description
- The Chalmette Refinery, located outside of New Orleans, Louisiana, is a 189,000 barrel per day, dual-train coking refinery with a Nelson Complexity of 12.7 and is capable of processing both light and heavy crude oil.
+++ Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation, 192,500
- Vacuum Distillation, 116,700
- Delayed Coker, 40,000
- Fluidised Catalytic Cracker, 71,600
- Hydrocracker, 20,200
- Catalytic Reformer, 20,000 + 29,400
- Naphtha Desulphurisation: 40,000
- Gasoline Desulphurisation: 45,000
- Other Distillate Desulphurisation: 27,500
- Heavy Gas Oil Desulphurisation: 64,500
+++ Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
+++ Crude Supply
- In 2008, the crude supply for the refinery was 7.5% local, 38.2% from other US sources and 54.3% from imported crude.
+++ Products Produced
- The refinery produces gasoline, diesel, kerosene, propane, butane, aromatics, fuel oil, refinery grade propylene, sulfur, petroleum coke and asphalt
- Products are transported on the Collins Oil Products Pipeline
- Products can be shipped via the Colonial Oil Products Pipeline
+++ Ongoing Projects
- An idled 12,000 bpd coker was refurbished and re-commissioned in 2019
- A biorefinery is being built on the site, with 1.1mtpa of capacity. The refinery is a JV with ENI
+++ Other Information
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+++ History
- 2005 - Exxon agrees to invest in emissions reductions after Consent Decree with the EPA
- 2015 - PBF agrees to acquire the refinery
- 2023 - ENI becomes partner in biorefinery project
Links
- Environmental Report 2002
- Louisiana Refinery Survey
- The Oaks” community newsletter
- U.S. Announces Clean Air Agreement with ExxonMobil Nearly 77 Percent of Domestic Refining Capacity Now Under Consent Decrees
- ExxonMobil Sells Share of Chalmette Refining, LLC in Louisiana
- PBF Energy to Purchase the Chalmette Refinery and Related Logistics Assets
- Eni Sustainable Mobility and PBF Energy Announce Partnership for St. Bernard Biorefinery in the US