American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Delaware Valley Section
Background
October 26, 2005 Valero Paulsboro
Refinery
Tour
Valero Energy Corporation is a Fortune 500
company based in San Antonio with approximately 22,000 employees and assets
valued at $31.5 billion.
The largest refiner in North America, Valero has an extensive refining system
with a throughput capacity of approximately 3.3 million barrels per day. The
company's geographically diverse refining network stretches from Canada to the
U.S. Gulf Coast and West Coast to the Caribbean.
In combination with its interest in Valero L.P., Valero has 9,150 miles of
pipeline, 94 terminal facilities and four crude oil storage facilities. Many of
these facilities complement Valero's refining and marketing assets in the U.S.
Southwest and Mid-continent regions.
A marketing leader, Valero has approximately 4,700 retail sites branded as
Valero, Diamond Shamrock, Ultramar, Beacon and Total. The company markets on a
retail and wholesale basis through a bulk and rack marketing network in 42 U.S.
states, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Valero has long been recognized throughout the industry as a leader in the
production of premium, environmentally clean products, such as reformulated
gasoline, California Air Resources Board (CARB) Phase II gasoline, low-sulfur
diesel and oxygenates.
Fast Facts Annual Revenues: $70 billion Total Assets: $31.5 billion Number of Employees: 22,000 Refining Throughput Capacity: 3.3
million barrels per day Number of Retail Sites: 4,700 Number of Wholesale Markets:
Valero markets products in 42 U.S. states, Canada, Latin America and the
Caribbean region
Products:
-- Reformulated gasoline (RFG)
-- Conventional gasoline
-- Premium grades of reformulated and conventional gasoline
-- California Air Resources Board (CARB) Phase III gasoline
-- Customized clean-burning gasoline blends for export markets (i.e., Mexican
CARB)
-- Clean-burning oxygenates
-- Gasoline blendstocks (alkylate, raffinate, naphtha, reformate)
-- Low-sulfur gasoline (less than 30 ppm) -- Atlanta grade
-- Low-sulfur diesel and ultra low-sulfur diesel (less than 15 ppm)
-- Jet fuel (commercial and military)
-- Aviation gasoline
-- Kerosene
-- Home heating oil and stove oil
-- Petrochemicals (mixed xylenes, benzene, toluene, chemical- and refinery-grade
propylene and psuedo cumene)
-- Asphalt
-- Lube oils (industrial and automotive)
-- Sulfur
-- Crude mineral spirits
-- Bunker oils
-- Petroleum coke
-- Anhydrous ammonia
-- Propane
-- Octene
1998
Valero acquired Mobil’s Paulsboro refinery, making Valero the nation’s
second-largest independent refining company with a total throughput capacity of
approximately 735,000 BPD. The acquisition also provided the company with
geographic diversity and access to Northeastern markets.
Paulsboro Refinery Fast Facts
-- Was accepted into the Occupational Safety and Health Association's (OSHA)
Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) as a Star Site, which recognizes it as one of
the safest refineries in the nation
-- Total feedstock throughput capacity of approximately 195,000 barrels per day
(BPD)
-- Products include gasoline, lube oil base stocks, mid-distillate products,
asphalt, petroleum coke, liquefied propane gas, fuel oil and molten sulfur
-- Employs approximately 540 individuals
Overview
We acquired the Paulsboro refinery from Mobil in 1998, giving us valuable access
to markets in the Northeast and expanding our national presence. A versatile
facility with a built-in customer base in the area, the Paulsboro refinery
receives a variety of feedstocks via its deepwater access on the Delaware River,
including sour crudes such as Arab Light, Arab Heavy, Oriente and Kirkuk. Much
of the plant feedstock is determined by Paulsboro’s lube blendstock production
needs.
Output
In addition to a wide range of petroleum products, the refinery produces
significant volumes of asphalt that are marketed to paving and roofing
contractors. It also produces a variety of lube oil base stocks that are sold to
the adjacent ExxonMobil finished lube blending and packaging plant as well as to
other purchasers under the ValPar brand. Major units include:
-- 110,000-BPD lube crude unit
-- 58,000-BPD fuels crude unit
-- 71,000-BPD distillate hydrotreaters
-- 55,000-BPD fluid catalytic cracking complex
-- 27,000-BPD delayed coking unit
-- 12,000-BPD lube plant
Location/Access
Situated on 950 acres, the Paulsboro refinery is in southern New Jersey, just 15
miles south of Philadelphia. Its position on the Delaware River allows the
refinery to take advantage of a number of transportation options. Products are
moved out of the refinery via the docks, through an on-site truck rack and
through various pipeline connections including a spur of the Colonial pipeline,
which allows products to be sold into the New York Harbor market.
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