Total's Port Arthur refinery is a large, high conversion refinery located in Port Arthur, Texas in the US.
The refinery is 100% owned and operated by Total.
The refinery processes medium and heavy, high-sulfur crude.
Complexity: 11.5
Atmospheric distillation - 190 kbpd - 2 units: ACU1 (150kbpd) and ACU-2 (40 kbpd)
Condensate splitter - 70 kbpd
Vacuum distillation - 111 kbpd - 2 units: VDU-1 (51 kbpd) and VDU-2 (60kbpd)
Coker - 60 kbpd
Solvent deasphalting - 16 kbpd - UOP Demex process
RCC - 80 kbpd - UOP technology - Feed is VGO and resid mix
Reformer - 43 kbpd - Continuous
Naphtha hydrotreater - 58 kbpd
Kerosene hydrotreater - 31 kbpd
Distillate hydrotreater - 80 kbpd
VGO hydrotreater - 54 kbpd
FCC gasoline hydrotreater - 52 kbpd
Alkylation - 7 kbpd
C5/C6 Isomerization - 9 kbpd
Aromatics extraction - 14 kbpd
Pet coke - 19 kbpd
Sulfur plant - 806 t/d
Employees - over 600
1936 - Built by Atlantic Refining
1968 - Merger with Richfield to form ARCO
1969 - Refinery acquired by BP
1973 - Refinery acquired by Fina
1991 - RCC added
2000 - Merger with Total
2010 - Kerosene hydrotreater added
2011 - Major upgrade adding a coker, coker naphtha hydrotreater, cracked distillate hydrotreater, VDU, PSA, and sulfur plant. Asphalt plant shut down.
2018 - Formed JV (Baystar) with Borealis to build a new stream cracker