Port Arthur Motiva Refinery

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Summary Information

  • Ownership: Motiva (Saudi Aramco)
  • Website: http://www.motivaenterprises.com/
  • Location: Port Arthur, Texas
  • Capacity: 30.0 million tons/annum & 600.000 bbl/day
  • Nelson Complexity:

Brief Description

  • Motiva Port Arthur is the largest refinery in the USA
  • It is a high complexity refinery that produces fuels and petrochemical feedstocks for the adjacent facility

Refining Units

  • The major refining process units include crude atmospheric and vacuum stilling, hydrotreating, catalytic reforming, delayed coking, fluid catalytic cracking, hydrocracking, lube solvent refining, and lube hydroprocessing, lube hydro-isomerization, lube propane deasphalting, and lube catalytic dewaxing.

Terminal Capacity

  • Crude Oil:
  • Refined Products:

Crude Supply

  • -

Products Produced

  • Major refined products are gasoline, distillates, jet fuel, lubricant base oils, and chemicals/solvents.
  • Products can be shipped via the Colonial Oil Products Pipeline

Ongoing Projects

Other Information

  • More than 95 percent of the refinery's gasoline and middle distillate products are delivered to market via three major product pipelines: Colonial, Explorer, and Magtex. Port Arthur Refinery has two separate docks: Port Neches Terminal is primarily a crude oil dock, while Port Arthur Terminal is primarily a finished product terminal. Approximately 700 vessels are handled at the two terminals yearly.

History

  • 1903 Port Arthur Refinery begins operation as Texaco’s first refinery
  • 1906 Port Neches Asphalt refinery was returned to asphalt production
  • 1909 Grease and lube oil processing was added as well as a canning plant
  • 1920’s HMVS batteries constructed for gasoline and higher yields
  • 1930’s Packaging and shipping facilities were expanded
  • 1940’s and 1950’s Expansion of gasoline and lube processing facilities
  • 1960’s Crude and cracking capacity expanded
  • 1970’s Crude capacity increased
  • 1980’s Crude capacity reached over 400 MBPD
  • mid-1980’s Refinery was streamlined and crude running reduced dramatically
  • 1989 Star Enterprise was formed between TRMI and SRI
  • 1990’s Numerous environmental programs were put into affect
  • 1998 Motiva Enterprises was formed by Texaco, Shell, and SRI and a new state-of-the-art lube processing unit was brought on-stream
  • 2002 Motiva Enterprises became equally owned by Shell and SRI
  • 2003 - New low sulfur gasoline unit was started
  • 2012 - The expanded refinery is commissioned, increasing capacity from 285,000 to 600,000 bpd
  • 2017 - Saudi Aramco becomes the sole owner

Links

  1. Refinery Webpage
  2. Project Page from Betchtel
  3. Motiva Celebrates Completion of Landmark Crude Expansion Project
  4. Saudi Refining, Inc. and Shell sign letter of intent to separate Motiva assets