Yorktown Refinery
Summary Information Ownership: Western Refining Website: http://www.wnr.com/ Location: Yorktown, Virginia, USA Capacity: 3.5 million tons/annum & 70,000 bbl/day Nelson Complexity: 11.4 Refining Depth: Brief Description A small medium complexity refinery. As of September 2010, the plant is mothballed Refining Units Atmospheric Distillation Vacuum Distillation - 41,500 Delayed Coker - 22,500 Fluidised Catalytic Cracker - 30,000 Catalytic Reformer - 12,000 Polymerization unit Desulphurisation Naphtha - 12,000 Gasoline - 30,000 Diesel - 12,000 Other - 18,960 Terminal Capacity Crude Oil: Refined Products: Crude Supply Most of the Yorktown refinery’s feedstocks come from Canada, the North Sea, South America, and the Far East. All of the crude oil supplied to this refinery is delivered by barge directly to the dock. Yorktown imports other feedstocks to supplement the processing units and blendstocks to optimize blending operations. Products Produced Gasoline, diesel, propane, butane, heavy fuel oils, and petroleum coke Products can be distributed via the Colonial Oil Products Pipeline Ongoing Projects - Other Information The company announced that it was mothballing the refinery in September 2010 History 1997 - Amoco announces Alkylation project 1998 - Alkylation project cancelled 2002 - Giant Industries acquires the refinery from BP 2006 - Announcement that S Zorb™ Sulfur Removal Technology is to Be Installed 2010 - Refinery temporarily closed 2011 - Idled refinery sold to Plains All American Pipeline Relevant Links Amoco and Haldor Topsoe Plan New Alkylation Unit Giant Industries, Inc Announces Acquisition Of Yorktown, Virginia Refinery From BP Western Refining, Refining segment page Western Refining Announces Completion of Refining Operations Shutdown at Yorktown Western Refining Investor Presentation, May 2011 Western Refining Announces Sale of Assets for $220 Million Western Refining Closes on Sale of Assets and Completes Redemption of All Outstanding Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes ConocoPhillips’ S Zorb™ Sulfur Removal Technology to Be Installed at Giant Industries’ Yorktown Refinery
