Paulsboro is a medium sized, high conversion refinery located on the Delaware River outside of Philadelphia in Paulsboro, New Jersey.
The refinery is 100% owned and operated by PBF.
The refinery processes medium and heavy sour crude oil, mostly from foreign imports.
In 2020 PBF shut a number of secondary units at Paulsboro and began sharing intermediates with its Delaware City refinery.
Complexity: 9.7
Atmospheric distillation - 105 kbpd
Vacuum distillation - 86 kbpd
Naphtha hydrotreater - 32 kbpd
Kerosene hydrotreater - 29 kbpd
Hydrogen production - 9 MMscfd
Base oil plant - 12 kpd
Asphalt plant - 21 kpd
Sulfur plant - 320 t/d
Hydrogen plant - 9 MMscfd
Land - 950 acres
1917 - Built by Vacuum Oil
1931 - Merged with Socony to form Socony Vacuum
1958 - Coker added (27 kbpd) - Lummus technology
1996 - Changed name to Mobil
1998 - Acquired by Valero
2003 - FCC gasoline hydrotreater added
2010 - Acquired by PBF
2020 - Shutdown of one crude unit (50 kbpd), coker (27 kbpd), FCC (55 kbpd) , alkylation (12kbpd - HF acid) and CCR reformer (32 kbpd), FCC gasoline hydrotreater (37 kbpd), and diesel hydrotreater (46 kbpd).
2022 - Temporarily restarted Diesel hydrotreater and CCR reformer.