Port Arthur Motiva Refinery

Summary Information Ownership: Motiva (Shell/Saudi Aramco) Website: http://www.motivaenterprises.com/ Location: Port Arthur, Texas Capacity: 30.0 million tons/annum & 600.000 bbl/day Nelson Complexity: Brief Description Motiva Port Arthur now ranks as the country’s largest refinery Refining Units The major refining process units include crude atmospheric and vacuum stilling, hydrotreating, catalytic reforming, delayed coking, fluid catalytic cracking, hydrocracking, lube solvent refining, and lube hydroprocessing, lube hydro-isomerization, lube propane deasphalting, and lube catalytic dewaxing. Terminal Capacity Crude Oil: Refined Products: Crude Supply - Products Produced Major refined products are gasoline, distillates, jet fuel, lubricant base oils, and chemicals/solvents. Ongoing Projects Major Expansion underway. see port arthur motiva expansion Other Information More than 95 percent of the refinery's gasoline and middle distillate products are delivered to market via three major product pipelines: Colonial, Explorer, and Magtex. Port Arthur Refinery has two separate docks: Port Neches Terminal is primarily a crude oil dock, while Port Arthur Terminal is primarily a finished product terminal. Approximately 700 vessels are handled at the two terminals yearly. History 1903 Port Arthur Refinery begins operation as Texaco’s first refinery 1906 Port Neches Asphalt refinery was returned to asphalt production 1909 Grease and lube oil processing was added as well as a canning plant 1920’s HMVS batteries constructed for gasoline and higher yields 1930’s Packaging and shipping facilities were expanded 1940’s and 1950’s Expansion of gasoline and lube processing facilities 1960’s Crude and cracking capacity expanded 1970’s Crude capacity increased 1980’s Crude capacity reached over 400 MBPD mid-1980’s Refinery was streamlined and crude running reduced dramatically 1989 Star Enterprise was formed between TRMI and SRI 1990’s Numerous environmental programs were put into affect 1998 Motiva Enterprises was formed by Texaco, Shell, and SRI and a new state-of-the-art lube processing unit was brought on-stream 2002 Motiva Enterprises became equally owned by Shell and SRI 2003 - New low sulfur gasoline unit was started 2012 - The expanded refinery is commissioned, increasing capacity from 285,000 to 600,000 bpd Relevant Links Refinery Webpage Project Page from Betchtel Motiva Celebrates Completion of Landmark Crude Expansion Project