Valero's Texas City refinery is a large, high conversion refinery 40 miles southwest of Houston on the ship channel in Texas City, Texas in the US.
The refinery is 100% owned and operated by Valero.
The refinery processes heavy high-sulfur crude oil that it receives by ship.
The refinery is connected to Valero's Houston refinery by pipeline.
Complexity: 12.2
Atmospheric distillation - 233 kbpd
Vacuum distillation - 134 kbpd
Coker - 54 kbpd - Delayed coker, Foster Wheeler SYDEC
Solvent deasphalting - 34 kbpd - Kerr McGee ROSE technology. 2-stage unit. nC4 solvent. Produces FCC feed and heavy fuel oil.
RCC - 86 kbpd
Reformer - 18 kbpd - Continuous
Naphtha hydrotreater - 25 kbpd
Kerosene hydrotreater - 36 kbpd
Distillate hydrotreater - 55 kbpd
Resid hydrotreater - 110 kbpd
FCC gasoline hydrotreater - 62 kbpd
Alkylation - 15 kbpd - HF acid
C5/C6 Isomerization - 7 kbpd
Pet coke - 19 kbpd
Sulfur plant - 680 t/d
Land - 290 acres
Employees - 480 acres
1908 - Built by Texas City Refining
1909 - Acquired by Pierce Oil
1929 - Shut down
1930 - Acquried by Sinclair (not restarted)
1936 - Acquired by Southport (restarted)
1941 - Renamed American Liberty Oil
1947 - Acquired by Sid Richardson and Petrol
1949 - Shut down
1951 - Renamed by Texas City Refining
1988 - Acquired by Phibro
1993 - SDA unit added
1996 - Renamed Basis
1996 - Gas oil hydrotreater (100 kb/d) and ROSE unit (40 kb/d) added. Visbreaker shut down (18.9 kbpd)
1997 - Acquired by Valero
2003 - Coker (45 kb/d) and naphtha hydrotreater added