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Summary Information
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=== Summary Information ===
Ownership: Chevron
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Website: www.chevron.com
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* Ownership: Chevron
List of Chevron Refineries
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* Website: www.chevron.com
Location: Mississippi, USA
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** List of [[Chevron Refineries]]
Capacity: 16.5 million tons/annum & 330,000 bbl/day
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* Location: Mississippi, USA
Nelson Complexity:
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* Capacity: 16.5 million tons/annum & 330,000 bbl/day
Refining Depth:
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* Nelson Complexity:  
Brief Description
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* Refining Depth:
The refinery is a large and very complex one
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Refining Units
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=== Brief Description ===
Atmospheric Distillation
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* The refinery is a large, two train refinery and very complex one.
Fluid Catalytic Cracker (FCC)- 63,000
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Hydrocracker - 58,000
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=== Refining Units ===
Delayed Coking Unit (Coker) - 105,000
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Catalytic Reforming - 71,000
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* Atmospheric Distillation
Hydrotreating
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* Fluid Catalytic Cracker (FCC)- 63,000
Heavy Gas Oil
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* Hydrocracker - 58,000  
Diesel
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* Delayed Coking Unit (Coker) - 105,000  
Naphtha
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* Catalytic Reforming - 71,000  
Kerosine
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* Hydrotreating
Alkylation Units - 14,800
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** Heavy Gas Oil
Sulphur Recovery Units
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** Diesel
Base oil production complex
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** Naphtha
Terminal Capacity
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** Kerosine
Crude Oil:
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* Alkylation Units - 14,800  
Refined Products:
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* Sulphur Recovery Units
Crude Supply
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* Base oil production complex
Most of the crude oil refined at the Chevron Pascagoula Refinery comes from Central and South America.
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All the crude oil processed at the refinery – over 100 million barrels a year – arrives by marine tanker
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=== Terminal Capacity ===
Products Produced
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Chevron's Pascagoula Refinery is primarily a fuels refinery, in that it mainly manufactures motor gasoline, about 130,000 barrels per day (BPD); jet fuel, 50,000 BPD; and diesel fuel, 68,000 BPD. Other products include fuel oils such as bunker fuel, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), aviation gasoline, jet fuels, petroleum coke and sulfur.
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* Crude Oil:  
Products can be supplied to the Plantation Oil Products Pipeline
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* Refined Products:  
Ongoing Projects
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$1.4 Billion is being invested in a new lubricants plant.
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=== Crude Supply ===
The facility will manufacture 25,000 barrels per day of premium base oil and will be completed in 2013
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* Most of the crude oil refined at the Chevron Pascagoula Refinery comes from Central and South America.  
Other Information
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* All the crude oil processed at the refinery – over 100 million barrels a year – arrives by marine tanker
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History
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=== Products Produced ===
1963 - The refinery began operations
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* Chevron's Pascagoula Refinery is primarily a fuels refinery, in that it mainly manufactures motor gasoline, about 130,000 barrels per day (BPD); jet fuel, 50,000 BPD; and diesel fuel, 68,000 BPD. Other products include fuel oils such as bunker fuel, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), aviation gasoline, jet fuels, petroleum coke and sulfur.
1983 - The refinery expanded its crude oil processing capabilities to process and treat low-grade heavier, sour, foreign crude oil
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* The refinery is the leading provider of jet fuel to Tampa Airport
2003 - The Clean Fuels Project, converted the Residuum Desulfurization (RDS) Unit from its original service of de-sulfurizing residuum. The unit is now a gas oil hydrotreater that produces ultra low-sulfur process feed for the FCC
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** Products can be supplied to the [[Plantation Oil Products Pipeline]] and the [[Colonial Oil Products Pipeline]]
2014 - The base oil production facility was completed
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Relevant Links
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=== Ongoing Projects ===
Refinery Website
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* $1.4 Billion is being invested in a new lubricants plant.  
Refinery Flowchart
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* The facility will manufacture 25,000 barrels per day of premium base oil and will be completed in 2013
Chevron to Build $1.4 Billion Lubricants Plant in Pascagoula, Miss
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KBR Awarded Construction Contract for Chevron's Base Oil Project in Pascagoula, MS
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=== Other Information ===
Commercial Production Begins at Chevron’s New Premium Base Oil Plant
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=== History ===
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* 1963 - The refinery began operations
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* 1983 - The refinery expanded its crude oil processing capabilities to process and treat low-grade heavier, sour, foreign crude oil
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* 2003 - The Clean Fuels Project, converted the Residuum Desulfurization (RDS) Unit from its original service of de-sulfurizing residuum. The unit is now a gas oil hydrotreater that produces ultra low-sulfur process feed for the FCC
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* 2014 - The base oil production facility was completed
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=== Links ===
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# [http://www.chevron.com/products/sitelets/pascagoula/ Refinery Website]
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# [http://www.chevron.com/products/sitelets/pascagoula/refiningprocess/chvflowchart.pdf Refinery Flowchart]
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# [http://killajoules.wikidot.com/blog:464 Chevron to Build $1.4 Billion Lubricants Plant in Pascagoula, Miss]
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# [http://killajoules.wikidot.com/blog:768 KBR Awarded Construction Contract for Chevron's Base Oil Project in Pascagoula, MS]
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# [http://killajoules.wikidot.com/blog:5332 Commercial Production Begins at Chevron’s New Premium Base Oil Plant]
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[[category:Refinery]]
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[[category:USA]]
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[[category:Chevron]]

Latest revision as of 18:42, 31 December 2024

Summary Information

  • Ownership: Chevron
  • Website: www.chevron.com
  • Location: Mississippi, USA
  • Capacity: 16.5 million tons/annum & 330,000 bbl/day
  • Nelson Complexity:
  • Refining Depth:

Brief Description

  • The refinery is a large, two train refinery and very complex one.

Refining Units

  • Atmospheric Distillation
  • Fluid Catalytic Cracker (FCC)- 63,000
  • Hydrocracker - 58,000
  • Delayed Coking Unit (Coker) - 105,000
  • Catalytic Reforming - 71,000
  • Hydrotreating
    • Heavy Gas Oil
    • Diesel
    • Naphtha
    • Kerosine
  • Alkylation Units - 14,800
  • Sulphur Recovery Units
  • Base oil production complex

Terminal Capacity

  • Crude Oil:
  • Refined Products:

Crude Supply

  • Most of the crude oil refined at the Chevron Pascagoula Refinery comes from Central and South America.
  • All the crude oil processed at the refinery – over 100 million barrels a year – arrives by marine tanker

Products Produced

  • Chevron's Pascagoula Refinery is primarily a fuels refinery, in that it mainly manufactures motor gasoline, about 130,000 barrels per day (BPD); jet fuel, 50,000 BPD; and diesel fuel, 68,000 BPD. Other products include fuel oils such as bunker fuel, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), aviation gasoline, jet fuels, petroleum coke and sulfur.
  • The refinery is the leading provider of jet fuel to Tampa Airport

Ongoing Projects

  • $1.4 Billion is being invested in a new lubricants plant.
  • The facility will manufacture 25,000 barrels per day of premium base oil and will be completed in 2013

Other Information

  • -

History

  • 1963 - The refinery began operations
  • 1983 - The refinery expanded its crude oil processing capabilities to process and treat low-grade heavier, sour, foreign crude oil
  • 2003 - The Clean Fuels Project, converted the Residuum Desulfurization (RDS) Unit from its original service of de-sulfurizing residuum. The unit is now a gas oil hydrotreater that produces ultra low-sulfur process feed for the FCC
  • 2014 - The base oil production facility was completed

Links

  1. Refinery Website
  2. Refinery Flowchart
  3. Chevron to Build $1.4 Billion Lubricants Plant in Pascagoula, Miss
  4. KBR Awarded Construction Contract for Chevron's Base Oil Project in Pascagoula, MS
  5. Commercial Production Begins at Chevron’s New Premium Base Oil Plant