Come By Chance Refinery

Summary Information

• Ownership: North Atlantic Refining Limited (NARL)
• Website: https://northatlantic.ca/refining/
• Location: Newfoundland, Canada
• Capacity: 6.75 million tons/annum & 115,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Refining Depth:

Brief Description

• The refinery has been closed and has been converted into a renewable fuels plant
• The North Atlantic refinery is a 115,000 barrel per day hydrocracking refinery, optimally configured to process medium sour crude oil (24-34° API, 1-3% sulphur). As a Clean Fuels refinery, 100% of North Atlantic’s gasoline and ultra low sulphur diesel (ULSD) products meet or exceed current and future anticipated environmentally driven specifications.

Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation - 115,000 bpd
• Hydrocracker - 38,000 bpd
• Visbreaker
• Diesel Desulphurisation

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• The refinery purchases and processes a medium gravity, sour grade of crude oil which is very similar in quality to the oil that Harvest produces in western Canada
• The company can economically source crude oil and other feedstock from numerous locations, including the Middle East, Latin America and Russia

Products Produced

• Able to produce 100% RBOB gasoline and 100% ULSD (current ULSD product meets 2010 Euro 5 standards)

Ongoing Projects

• The refinery which has been idled, is to be converted into a 14,000 bpd renewable refinery
• A second phase may expand that to 35,000 bpd
• Old Projects
  • In 2011, the refinery was debottlenecked to increase capacity to 120,000 bpd
  • Harvest energy considered a major upgrade and expansion of the refinery
  • See Come By Chance Refinery Expansion Project

Other Information

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History

• 1974 - Refinery Commissioned
• 1990 - Hydrocracker commissioned
• 2006 - Refinery purchased by Harvest Energy
• 2008 - Visbreaker Debottlenecking project completed
• 2009 - Harvest energy aquired by KNOC
• 2014 - Refinery aquired by SilverRange
• 2020 - Irving Oil and Silverpeak announce acquisition agreement for North Atlantic Refining Corp.
• 2020 - The refinery was idled
• 2021 - Cresta Fund Management acquired a majority stake and announced the conversion to a renewable fuels plant
• 2024 - The renewable fuels facility began production

Links

1. Harvest Energy Refining & Marketing
2. Harvest Eenergy Investment Opportunities
3. Harvest Energy Trust Agrees to C$4.1 Billion Sale to Korea National Oil Corporation
4. Harvest Operations Announces Sale of Newfoundland Refinery and Related Marketing and Retail Operations
5. Irving Oil and Silverpeak announce acquisition agreement for North Atlantic Refining Corp.
6. Cresta Fund Management to Acquire a Controlling Interest in the Come By Chance Refinery in Newfoundland, Establishing Braya Renewable Fuels as a Global Leader in the Production of Clean Fuels
7. Renewable Fuels Project in Canada Begins Production