Valero Houston Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Valero
- Website: http://www.valero.com/
- List of Valero Refineries
- Location: Houston, Texas
- Capacity: 7.25 million tons/annum & 145,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- The refinery is a mid-sized plant with a total throughput capacity of 145,000 barrels per day (BPD) and produces a wide range of petroleum products.
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation - 145,000
- Vacuum Distillation Unit - 38,000
- Fluidised Catalytic Cracker - 65,000
- Catalytic Reformer - 60,600
- Solvent Deasphalting - 18,000
- Alkylation Unit
- Desulpurisation
- Naphtha - 9,000
- Gasoline - 30,300
- Jet Fuel - 12,000
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- The refinery imports crude from Saudi Arabia & Iraq
Products Produced
- fuel gas, gasoline, kerosene, jet fuel, diesel fuel, sulfur, No. 2 fuel oil, liquefied petroleum gases (LPGs), propylene, vacuum gas oil, No. 6 fuel oil and iso-octene
- The refinery has access to major product pipelines including Colonial Oil Products Pipeline, TEPPCO, Orion and Explorer Oil Products Pipeline
Projects
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Other Information
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History
- 1943 - Refinery Commissioned
- 1997 - Refinery acquired with the purchase of Basis Petroleum
- 2003 - Completed an initial energy efficiency project
- 2016 - Completed a new crude unit with a capacity of 90,000 barrels per day
