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Commerce City is a medium sized, high conversion refinery comprised of two integrated sites (East Plant and West Plant) located outside of Denver in Commerce City, Colorado in the US.
The refinery is 100% owned and operated by Suncor.
The refinery runs local crude from the Denver-Julesberg basin
Product are primarily sold in the local Denver market
Complexity: 6.8
Atmospheric distillation - 112 kbpd
Vacuum distillation - 34 kbpd
FCC - 31 kbpd
Reformer - 22 kbpd - Semiregen
Naphtha hydrotreater - 22 kbpd
Kerosene hydrotreater - 12 kbpd
Distillate hydrotreater - 23 kbpd
VGO hydrotreater - 30 kbpd
Hydrogen production - 22 MMscfd
Asphalt plant - 12 kpd
Sulfur plant - 116 t/d
Land - acres
1930 - West plant built by Continental Oil
1997 - East plant acquired by Ultramar Diamond Shamrock as part of Total
2002 - East plant acquired by Valero as part of Ultramar Diamond Shamrock
2003 - West site acquired by Sunoco from Conoco Phillips
2005 - East site acquired by Sunoco from Valero
2006 - Kerosene hydrotreater and hydrogen plant added