Big West North Salt Lake Refinery
Summary Information Ownership: Big West Oil LLC Website: http://www.bigwestoil.com/ Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Capacity: 1.75 million tons/annum & 35.000 bbl/day Nelson Complexity: Refining Depth: Brief Description A small but medium complex refinery, focused on gasoline production and able to utilise waxy crudes Refining Units Atmospheric Distillation Vacuum Distillation Fluidised Catalytic Cracker, 11,500 CCR Platforming unit - UOP Naphtha Desulphurisation, 8,900 Diesel Desulphurisation, 9,500 Alkylation unit - 2,800 bpd Terminal Capacity Crude Oil: Refined Products: Crude Supply The Salt Lake refining complex's crude oil inputs consist of black wax crude oil and yellow wax crude oil from the nearby Uinta basin in northeastern Utah, light sweet crude oil (condensate) from Southwest Wyoming, or SWWS, and synthetic crude oil, or syncrude, from Canada. Products Produced Products are primarily gasoline and diesel Big West sells the refined products from the Salt Lake refining complex in Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado and Oregon. The refinery is connected to the Northwest Product Pipeline Ongoing Projects - Other Information - History 1948 - The Salt Lake refining complex was originally constructed 1985 - Big West acquired the complex 2005 - UOP Announces CCR Platforming™ Unit Startup Relevant Links UOP Announces Flying J CCR Platforming™ Unit Startup BIG WEST OIL PARTNERS, LP IPO