Kwinana refinery

Summary Information

• Ownership: BP
• Website: http://www.bp.com/
• List of BP Refineries
• Location: Western Australia
• Capacity: 7.0 million tons/annum & 146,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:

Brief Description

• Kwinana is a medium sized, high complexity refinery.
• It is the largest refinery in Australia

Refining Units

• Atmopheric Distillation
• Vacuum Distillation
• Residue Cracking Unit
• Merox Unit
• Diesel Hydrofiners
• Catalytic Reformer
• Isomerisation Unit
• Alkylation Unit
• Asphalt Unit
• Sulphur Recovery Unit

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• Crude oil is delivered to BP Refinery (Kwinana) mostly by ship
• It is sourced from the Middle East, West Africa, Indonesia, New Zealand as well as domestic Australian crude oil

Products Produced

• Petrol, Diesel fuels, Aviation fuel, including jet fuel and aviation gasoline, Bitumen, Fuel oil, Hydrogen, Kerosene, LPG (including propane and butane)

Projects

• BP is converting the facility into a Biorefinery

Other Information

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History

• 1955 - Refinery commissioned with a design capacity of three million tonnes of crude per year
• 1984 - BP acquired the refinery from Amoco
• 2003 - Aker Kvaerner awarded contract for clean fuels project
• 2020 - BP announces that the refinery is to close down
• 2023 _ BP awards contracts for Biorefinery

Links

1. Refinery Webpage
2. Kwinana Environmental Report
3. BP awards design contract for Clean Diesel project to Aker Kvaerner Australia
4. bp to cease production at Kwinana refinery and convert to fuel import terminal
5. Technip Energies Awarded a Significant Contract for Hydrogen Production Unit at bp’s Kwinana Biorefinery