Chevron Salt Lake City Refinery

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Summary Information

Brief Description

A small complex refinery

Refining Units

  • Atmospheric Distillation
  • Vacuum Distillation
  • Delayed Coker
  • Fluidised Catalytic Cracking
  • Catalytic Reformer
  • Alkylation Unit
  • Desulphurisation
    • Naphtha
    • Gasoline
    • Diesel

Terminal Capacity

  • Crude Oil:
  • Refined Products:

Crude Supply

  • Domestic crude oil comes from Utah, Colorado & Wyoming
  • The refinery also processes medium and heavy crude from Canada

Products Produced

Projects

  • A new Alkylation unit was commissioned in 2021

Other Information

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History

  • 1948 - Refinery commissioned
  • 2005 - BOC signs deal to supply hydrogen
  • 2013 - Chevron agreed to pay $384,000 penalty and improve emission controls to resolve Clean Air Act violations
  • 2021 - New Alkylation unit commissioned

Links

  1. BOC Signs Contracts to Supply Hydrogen to Chevron and Holly Oil Refineries; Hydrogen Used to Produce Cleaner Burning Fuels
  2. Chevron: Refinery Identifies $4.4 Million in Annual Savings by Using Process Simulation Models to Perform Energy-Efficiency Assessment
  3. Chevron to pay $384,000 penalty and improve emission controls to resolve Clean Air Act violations at Salt Lake City refinery
  4. Chevron and Honeywell Announce Start-up of World's First Commercial ISOALKY™ Ionic Liquids Alkylation Unit