The Martinez refinery is a large, complex refinery owned and operated by Shell on the West Coast of the US.
Martinez is located 30 miles west of San Francisco in Martinez, California.
Martinez is a full conversion refinery capable of processing heavy sour crude and making finished light products.
Complexity: 16.5
Atmospheric distillation - 158 kbpd
Vacuum distillation - 101 kbpd
Coker - 49 kbpd - two units:
Delayed coker (~24 kbpd) - Foster Wheeler
Flexicoker (~20 kbpd) - Exxon desing,
FCC - 72 kbpd
Hydrocracker - 43 kbpd
Reformer - 31 kbpd - Continuous
Naphtha hydrotreater - 27.5 kbpd
Distillate hydrotreater - 49 kbpd
VGO hydrotreater - 85 kbpd
FCC gasoline hydrotreater - 93 kbpd
Alkylation - 13 kbpd - Sulfuric acid
C5/C6 Isomerization - 15 kbpd
Hydrogen production - 179 MMscfd
Pet coke - 9 kbpd
Sulfur plant - 413 t/d
Land - 1,000 Acres
1915 - Built by Shell
1966 - Light oil processing project adding integrated distillation, FCC and hydrocracking
1982 - $800 million modernization project
1983 - Flexicoker added (20 kbpd)
1996 - Delayed coker added (24 kbpd)
1997 - Clean fuels project
1998 - Equilon JV formed with Texaco
2001 - Shell acquired JV assets from Texaco
2004 - Distillate hydrotreater added
2012 - Asphalt plant shut down
2016 - C5 isomerization added