Also known as:
The Tula refinery is a very large, high conversion refinery located north of Mexico City in Tula de Allende, Hidalgo in Mexico.
The refinery is owned and operated by Pemex.
Complexity: 9.4
Atmospheric distillation: 315 kbpd
Vacuum distillation - 144 kbpd
Coking - 19 kbpd
Visbreaking - 37.7 kbpd
FCC - 83 kbpd
Reformer (SR) - 61.8 kbpd
Naphtha hydrotreater - 84 kbpd
Distillate hydrotreater - 139.4 kbpd
VGO hydrotreater - 80 kbpd
FCC naphtha hydrotreater - 30 kbpd
Alkylation - 7.1 kbpd
C5/C6 Isomerization - 13.8 kbpd
Oxygenates plant - 4.6 kbpd
Asphalt plant - 5 kbpd
1977 - Refinery opens with capacity of 177 kb/d
1987 - Second crude tower with capacity of 165 kb/d added
1994 - Second FCC added
1996 - MTBE, TAME, hydrotreater, isomerization added
1997 - H-Oil resid hydrocracker added