Tesoro Wilmington Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Tesoro
- Website: http://www.tsocorp.com/
- Location: Wilmington, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Capacity: 5.0 million tons/annum & 97,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity: 16.4
- Refining Depth:
+++ Brief Description
- A medium sized highly complex refinery
+++ Refining Units
- [[[Atmospheric Distillation]]]
- Vacuum Distillation - 65,000
- Delayed Coker - 42,000
- FCC- 35,000
- Hydrocracker - 10,000 + 22,000
- Catalytic Reforming - 32,500
- Desulphurisation
* Naphtha - 33,500 * Kerosene - 15,000 * Diesel - 10,000 * Other - 22,000 * Heavy Gasoil - 38,000
+++ Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
+++ Crude Supply
- The refinery processes heavy crude from California’s San Joaquin Valley and Los Angeles Basin as well as imported crudes from South America and other international sources.
+++ Products Produced
- gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuels, petroleum coke and fuel oil
+++ Ongoing Projects
- Vacuum Distillation Unit replacement is under way, with completion expected in 2012
+++ Other Information
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+++ History
- 1923 - The Los Angeles Refinery began operations as California Petroleum Corp
- 1998 - Shell acquired an ownership interest through a joint venture
- 2002 - Shell became sole owner
- 2007 - Tesoro acquired the Los Angeles refinery from Shell
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