Deer Park is a large, high conversion refinery located on the Houston Ship Channel, 20 miles south of downtown Houston, Texas in the US.
Deer Park is owned by Pemex
Complexity: 11.0
Atmospheric distillation - 340 kbpd
Vacuum distillation - 180 kbpd
Coker - 96 kbpd - Delayed coker
FCC - 80 kbpd
Hydrocracker - 60 kbpd
Reformer - 45 kbpd - Continuous
Reformer - 25 kbpd - Semiregen
Naphtha hydrotreater - 80 kbpd
Kerosene hydrotreater - 40 kbpd
Distillate hydrotreater - 50 kbpd
VGO hydrotreater - 80 kbpd
Resid hydrotreater - 50 kbpd
FCC gasoline hydrotreater - 47 kbpd
Alkylation - 21 kbpd - Sulfuric acid - Acid regen provided by Rohm & Haas Deer Park plant nearby
Pet coke - 26 kbpd
Sulfur plant - 1140 t/d
Land - 2300 Acres
Employees - 1500 plus 1200 contractors
1929 - Built by Shell
1993 - Placed into a 50/50 JV with Pemex
1995 - Visbreaker shut down (12.5 kbpd). DUBBS
2004 - FCC gasoline hydrotreater added
2015 - Hydrogen plant shut down
2021 - Shell announced plans to sell interest in the refinery to Pemex
2022 - Pemex took full ownership and operating control of the refinery