Saraland Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Vertex
- Website: https://www.vertexenergy.com/
- Location: Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA
- Capacity: 4.3 million tons/annum & 86,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- Saraland Refinery is a small / medium sized medium complexity refinery with a hydrocracker and hydrotreating capabilities to produce low sulphur products. It produces feedstocks for a petrochemical plant
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation - 86,000 bpd
- Vacuum Distillation - 30,000 bpd
- Hydrocracker (renewable diesel) - 14,000 bpd
- Catalytic Reformer - 22,000 bpd
- Hydrotreating
- Naphtha - 22,000 bpd
- Diesel - 8,000 bpd
- Heavy gasoil - 22,000 bpd
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- The refinery is supplied by crude oil by the Jay Pipeline System
Products Produced
- Heavy Olefin Plant Feed, plus refined products: LPGs (liquid petroleum gases), gasoline, kerosene (jet fuel), diesel (# 2 oil), and # 6 oil blend stock.
Projects
- The hydrocracker was converted into a renewable diesel unit, and completed in 2023
Other Information
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History
- 1975 - Refinery is commissioned by Louisiana Land & Exploration Company
- 1996 - Refinery is acquired by Shell Chemical
- 2022 - Shell sold the refinery to Vertex
- 2023 - The renewable diesel facility began production
