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# [[Foster Wheeler Delayed Cokers]] | # [[Foster Wheeler Delayed Cokers]] | ||
# [http://killajoules.wikidot.com/archive:lyondell-citgo-houston-refinery-offered-for-sale Lyondell-Citgo Houston Refinery Offered for Sale] | # [http://killajoules.wikidot.com/archive:lyondell-citgo-houston-refinery-offered-for-sale Lyondell-Citgo Houston Refinery Offered for Sale] | ||
| + | # [https://refiningnews.blogspot.com/2022/04/lyondellbasell-announces-plans-to-exit.html LyondellBasell Announces Plans to Exit Refining Business] | ||
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Revision as of 08:12, 25 April 2022
Summary Information
- Ownership: Lyondell Basell
- Website: http://www.lyondellbasell.com/
- Location: Houston, Texas
- Capacity: 13.4 million tons/annum & 268,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
+++ Refining Units
- Crude Distillation Unit
- Vacuum Distillation Unit
- Coker
- FCC
- Diesel Desulphurisation
- Gasoline Hydrotreating
+++ Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
+++ Crude Supply
- The Refinery is a full conversion refinery designed to run heavy (16 to 18 degrees API), high sulfur crude oil.
- Most of the crude oil used as a raw material for the Refinery is purchased under a crude supply agreement with PDVSA Petróleo, S.A. (“PDVSA Oil”), an affiliate of Petróleos de Venezulea, S.A. (“PDVSA”), the national oil company of Venezuela.
Products Produced
- Gasoline (including blendstocks for oxygenate blending), jet fuel, heating oil, ultra low sulfur diesel fuel, coke and sulfur
- Products can be shipped via the Colonial Oil Products Pipeline
+++ Ongoing Projects
- -
+++ Other Information
- -
History
- The Houston refinery was one of the first petroleum refineries constructed on the Houston Ship Channel and traces its origin to 1918.
- The initial plant was operated by Sinclair Refining and later by Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO).
- 1993 - Lyondell-Citgo Refining LP was formed
- 1997 - Delayed coker added
- 2006 - PDVSA announced plans to sell the refinery
- 2006 - LyondellBasell reacquired full ownership of the plant and the refinery, operating as Houston Refining LP, is now a wholly owned subsidiary of LyondellBasell.
