Pointe-à-Pierre Refinery

Summary Information

• Ownership: Petrotrin
• Website: http://www.petrotrin.com/
• Location: West coast of Trinidad
• Capacity: 8.75 million tons/annum & 175,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Refining Depth:

Brief Description

• A medium sized refinery of medium complexity

Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation
• Vacuum crude distillation,
• visbreaking,
• naphtha catalytic reforming,
• catalytic cracking,
• hydrotreating,
• alkylation
• MTBE synthesis

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• Some of the crude is supplied from domestic production, mostly from Petrotrin's own fields

Products Produced

• LPG, Gasoline, Dieseli Jet Fuel, Fuel Oil

Projects

• For details see Pointe A Pierre Refinery Project
• Petrotrin finished a gasoline optimisation project in 2010
• The company has signed an agreement (November 2009) with Samsung Engineering to build an ULSD plant.

Other Information

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History

• 1917 - the first distillation unit at Pointe-a-Pierre
• 1985 - Texaco sold the Pointe-a-Pierre Refinery along with other assets to the Government
• 2013 - Alkylation unit commissioned

Links

1. Dupont Refinery Project References
2. Elessent Alkylation Units
3. TECNA Oil And Gas Processing References
4. Evolution Chart of Petrotrin
5. Trinidad oil fields running low - Petrotrin deputised to find new supplies