Tesoro Salt Lake City Refinery

Summary Information

• Now Marathon Salt Lake City Refinery

• Ownership: Tesoro
• Website: http://www.tsocorp.com/
• Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
• Capacity: 3.0 million tons/annum & 58,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Refining Depth:

+++ Brief Description

• A small medium complexity refinery

+++ Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation
• Fluidised Catalytic Cracking - 25,000
• Catalytic Reforming - 12,000
• Hydroprocessing
  • Naphtha -12,600
  • Gasoline - 8,000
  • Diesel - 14,000

+++ Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

+++ Crude Supply

• The refinery processes crude oil from Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and Canada

+++ Products Produced

• gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, heavy fuel oils and liquefied petroleum gas
• The refinery is connected to the [[[Northwest Product Pipeline]]]

+++ Ongoing Projects

• The [[[Tesoro Salt Lake City Refinery Project]]] will expand crude oil throughput capacity by 7%
• The project allows the Company to increase throughput of transportation-advantaged black wax and yellow wax crude oil to 21 mbpd, an increase of over 100%. The project also includes capital for conversion unit upgrades designed to drive a nearly 3% increase in clean product yield at the refinery. Based on current estimates, the project has a payback period of less than two years and is expected to be completed in two stages in 2013 and 2014, subject to required permitting.

+++ Other Information

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+++ History

• 1908 - Refinery operations begin
• 2001 - Tesoro acquired the refinery from BP together with [[[Mandan Refinery]]]
• 2011 - Tesoro Corporation Announces the Salt Lake City Expansion and Feedstock Advantage Project

+++ Links

1. Refinery Webpage
2. Tesoro Corporation Announces the Salt Lake City Expansion and Feedstock Advantage Project
3. Tesoro To Acquire Refineries And Marketing Operations From BP