Memphis Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Valero
- Website: http://www.valero.com/
- Company Refineries: Valero Refineries
- Location: Memphis, Tennessee, USA
- Capacity: 9.75 million tons/annum & 195,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- A large medium complexity refinery that processes light sweet crude
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Fluidised Catalytic Cracker - 70,000
- Catalytic Reformer - 36,000
- Alkylation unit
- Desulphurisation
- Naphtha - 52,000
- Gasoline - 39,000
- Diesel - 69,000
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- Primarily processes light and sweet crude oil
- The refinery previously received it oil through the Capline Oil Pipeline
- It is now connected to Cushing, through the Diamond Crude Oil Pipeline
Products Produced
- Nearly 100 percent of production in light products
- Conventional gasoline, reformulated gasoline, jet fuel, high and low sulfur diesel fuel, petrochemical feedstocks and residual oil
Ongoing Projects
- Technip is constructing a Hydrogen unit, which is expected to be completed in 2012
Other Information
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History
- 1941 - Refinery Commissioned
- 2001 - Williams launched clean gasoline project
- 2003 - Premcor acquired the refinery from Williams
- 2005 - Refinery acquired with the purchase of Premcor
- 2017 - The Diamond pipeline opens bringing domestic crude oil to the refinery
