Norco Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Motiva (Shell / Saudi Aramco)
- Website: http://www.motivaenterprises.com/
- Location: Along the Mississippi River about 20 miles west of New Orleans, Louisiana
- Capacity: 11.0 million tons/annum & 220,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
+++ Brief Description
- A large complex refinery, with a high gasoline yield
+++ Refining Units
- [[[Atmospheric Distillation]]] - 220,000
- Fluidised catalytic cracking, - 120,000
- Catalytic reformers, 40,000 + 22,000
- Hydrocracking - 38,000
- Delayed coking - 27,900
- Hydrotreating
- Naphtha - 38,500
- Gasoline - 75,400
- Diesel - 70,000
+++ Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
+++ Crude Supply
- Gulf of Mexico crude is supplied via the Delta Crude Oil Pipeline
+++ Products Produced
- LPG, Gasoline, Diesel, Coke
- Products can be transported by the Colonial Oil Products Pipeline via the Bengal Oil Products Pipeline
+++ Ongoing Projects
- The refinery is going to be integrated with the Convent Refinery to create a more efficient refining system
+++ Other Information
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+++ History
- 1918 - Refinery was commission and operated by the New Orleans Refining Company
- 1929 - Refinery bought by Shell
- 1998 - Became part of Motiva
- 2006 - Products shipments began on the Colonial Oil Products Pipeline
- 2015 - Louisiana Refining System project launched
