Valero's Wilmington is a small, high conversion refinery comprised of two integrated plants located 23 miles south of downtown Los Angeles in Wilmington, California in the US.
The refinery is 100% owned and operated by Valero.
The refinery processes heavy sour crude supplied by pipeline from local California production and foreign crude by water.
The refinery is a major supplier of asphalt to the Southern California market.
Complexity: 16.3
Atmospheric distillation - 94 kbpd
Vacuum distillation - 51 kbpd
Coker - 29 kbpd
FCC - 56 kbpd
Reformer - 18 kbpd - Continuous
Naphtha hydrotreater - 32 kbpd
Distillate hydrotreater - 45 kbpd
VGO hydrotreater - 67 kbpd
Alkylation - 22 kbpd - HF acid
Asphalt plant - 3.5 kpd
Pet coke - 10 kbpd
Sulfur plant - 280 t/d
Land - 120 acres
Employees - 440
1969 - Main site built by Champlin
1980 - Asphalt plant built by Huntway
1987 - Main plant acquired by Union Pacific Resources
1988 - Main Plant acquired by Ultramar
1997 - Ultramar merges with Diamond Shamrock to for Ultramar Diamond Shamrock
2001 - Asphalt plant acquired by Valero
2002 - Main plant acquired by Valero
2008 - C4 isomerization shut down