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.
The refinery is integrated with a petrochemicals plant owned by BASF (60%) and Total (40%) and operated by BASF. Total send its share of ethylene production to its Bayport polyethylene plant, and its propylene to its Laporte polypropylene plant.
Total also has a 50/0 JV with Borealis (Borstar) that includes an additional cracker (1 mta) and and polyethylene unit (625 kta)
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 - Delayed coker
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
Anmine unit - 2 units
Employees - over 600
Petrochemicals capacity (in JV with BASF)
Ethylene - 1.18 mta
Propylene - 635 kta - from cracking and metathesis
Butadiene - 410 kta
Benzene - 143 kta
Toluene - 122 kta
Petrochemicals capacity (in JV with Borealis)
Ethylene - 1 mta
Polyehhylene - 625 kta
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
1997 - JV formed with BASF to build steam cracker
2000 - fina merger with Total
2001 - Steam cracker commissioned, running naphtha as feed
2010 - Kerosene hydrotreater added
2011 - Major upgrade adding a coker (50kbd) , coker naphtha hydrotreater, cracked distillate hydrotreater (DHT-3 - 64 kbd), VDU (55 kbd) , PSA, and sulfur plant. Asphalt plant shut down. Project cost of $2.2 B.
2013 - Steam cracker modified to run ethane as feed
2015 - Total unsuccessfullly sought partner to take 50% ownership in refinery
2018 - Formed JV (Baystar) with Borealis to build a new stream cracker
2020 - FCC gasoline hydrotreater commissioned
2022/23 - Baystar JV cracker and polypropylene plant commissioned