Capacity: 10.5 million tons/annum & 210,000 bbl/day
Nelson Complexity:
Refining Units
CDU
VDU
FCC
HF Alkylation unit,
catalytic reforming unit
hydrotreating
Terminal Capacity
Crude Oil:
Refined Products:
Crude Supply
The refinery is able to process heavy crudes
It also processes acidic crudes including Doba Crude from the oil fields of Chad in Africa.
Products Produced
Petrol
Diesel
Kerosene & jet fuel
Fuel oil
LPG
Petrochemical feedstocks
About half of the refineries output is gasoline.
Ongoing Projects
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Other Information
As of March 2010, Chevron announced that it was looking for a buyer for the refinery. Like all gasoline oriented refineries in Europe, a market dominated by diesel, the refinery is not as profitable as it should be given its high complexity.
History
The refinery was initially owned by the Regent Oil Company, a large domestic marketer of Trinidad-produced oils.
Regent was fully acquired by Texaco in 1956 (although the brand name was only phased out in the UK in favour of Texaco in the late 1960s).
A fluid catalytic cracker came on stream in 1982.
Today the refinery is owned and branded by the Chevron Corporation, as a result of their acquisition of Texaco.
