Pascagoula Refinery

Summary Information

• Ownership: Chevron
• Website: www.chevron.com
  • List of Chevron Refineries
• 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
  • Products can be supplied to the Plantation Oil Products Pipeline and the Colonial Oil Products Pipeline

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

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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