Houston Refining

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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:

Brief Description

  • The refinery is strategically located on the U.S. Gulf Coast with access to interstate pipelines and the Port of Houston. The facility covers approximately 700 acres at the city limits of Houston and Pasadena, Texas
  • The refinery has the ability to transform very heavy high-sulfur crude oil into clean fuels including reformulated gasoline and low-sulfur diesel.

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

  • LyondellBasell plans to close down the refinery by the end of 2023

Other Information

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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.
  • 2022 - LyondellBasell announces that it plans to close the refinery by the end of 2023

Links

  1. Refinery Webpage
  2. Management Report for the Year Ended December 31, 2007
  3. Foster Wheeler Delayed Cokers
  4. Lyondell-Citgo Houston Refinery Offered for Sale
  5. LyondellBasell Announces Plans to Exit Refining Business