The Beaumont refinery is a large, high-conversion refinery located on the Neches River in Beamont, Texas in the US.
The refinery is 100% owned and operated by ExxonMobil.
The refinery is part of a complex that also includes a chemicals plant and a lubricants blending and packaging plant.
Beaumont is a large, high-complexity refinery, with coking, FCC, and hydrocracking.
Complexity: 11.6
Atmospheric distillation - 384 kbpd - Two units. Third unit being added in 2023 (250 kbpd)
Vacuum distillation - 148.8 kbpd
Coker - 48 kbpd - Lummus technology
FCC - 115 kbpd
Hydrocracker - 70 kbpd - Chevron Isocracker technology
Reformer - 144 kbpd - Continuous
Naphtha hydrotreater - 163 kbpd
Kerosene hydrotreater - 51 kbpd
Distillate hydrotreater - 42 kbpd
VGO hydrotreater - 21 kbpd
FCC gasoline hydrotreater - 71 kbpd
Alkylation - 16 kbpd - Sulfuric acid - Acid regen provided by Chemtrade Beaumont plant nearby
C4 Isomerization - 13 kbpd
C5/C6 Isomerization - 34 kbpd
Pet coke - 15 kbpd
Sulfur plant - 661 t/d
Land - 2400 Acres
1903 - Built by Standard Oil
1911 - With the breakup of the Standard Oil Trust became part of Standard Oil Co of New York (Socony)
Socony merged with Vacuum Oil to become Socony vacuum
1960 - Coker addded
1963 - Changed name to Mobil
1969 - Hydrocracker added
1993 - Coker expanded by 17 kbpd
1999 - Merged with Exxon to form ExxonMobil
2018 - New FCC gasoline hydrotreater (Scanfining) unit. 40 kbpd. $450MM. ExxonMobil technology.
2023 - Expected completion of project to increase light crude processing to 250 kbpd costing $2B. Includes kerosene hydrotreater (25 kbpd), distillate hydrotreater (60 kbpd) and benzene extraction.