Pasadena Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Pasadena Refining (Chevron)
- Website: http://www.pasadenarefining.com/
- Location: Pasadena, Texas, USA
- Capacity: 6.25 million tons/annum & 125,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- A medium sized complex refinery, with a high gasoline yield, located on the Houston Canal
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation - 110,000
- Vacuum Distillation - 38,000
- Delayed Coker - 12,500
- Fluidised Catalytic Cracker - 56,000
- Catalytic Reformer - 23,000
- Hydrotreatment
- Naphtha - 28,000
- Gasoline - 34,000
- Distillate - 16,000
Terminal Capacity
- 5.1 million barrels of crude oil and refined products
Crude Supply
- The refinery is supplied by tankers via the Houston ship canal
- The refinery can process Eagle Ford Crude supplied by the KMCC Pipeline
Products Produced
- Gasoline, Diesel, Kerosene
- Products can be shipped via the Colonial Oil Products Pipeline
Ongoing Projects
- An expansion project was completed in 2024, which increased capacity to 125,000 barrels per day. It also enabled the refinery to process more local light crude oil.
- The Pasadena Refinery Project which was launched in 2010, designed to increase capacity and adapt the plant to process heavy crude oil was never implemented.
- Fluor was selected to provide front-end engineering study services for a prospective U.S. refinery project.
Other Information
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History
- 2006 - Petrobras bought a 50 percent stake in Pasadena Refinery
- 2007 - Low Sulfur Gasoline Unit began operations
- 2008 - Petrobras America took over full control of operations at Pasadena Refinery
- 2010 - Fluor chosen to provide front-end engineering study services for expansion
- 2012 - Petrobras announced an agreement that terminates all the lawsuits relating to the acquisition
- 2019 - Chevron agrees to acquire the refinery from Petrobras
- 2024 - The refinery expansion was completed
Links
- Petrobras USA
- US Department of Labor's OSHA fines Pasadena Refining Services in Texas $115,650 for multiple safety hazards
- Fluor Selected by Petrobras Affiliate for U.S. Refinery Study
- Execution of Agreement: Pasadena Refinery
- Chevron Agrees with Petrobras to Buy Pasadena Refinery System for $350 Million
- Chevron upgrades pasadena refinery to increase capacity, feedstock and product flexibility
