Saint Charles Refinery

About

The Valero St. Charles Refinery major process units were built in the early 1980s or later, making this refinery one of the newest in the United States. Between 2000 and 2002 major upgrades included the construction of a large fluid catalytic cracking unit, alkylation unit and continuous catalytic reformer unit. Since acquisition of the refinery outside New Orleans in 2003, Valero has invested more than $1 billion making the plant one of the company's more complex refineries. These investments enabled the plant to process additional heavy feedstocks, increase throughput capacity, upgrade its product yields and improve on-stream reliability. The St. Charles facility also adds value to the company‚Äôs operations by providing intermediate feedstocks to other Valero refineries located along the Gulf Coast and has access to the Colonial and Plantation pipelines for distribution of refined products to numerous markets in the southern and eastern U.S.

Process units built either in the early 1980s or later, with several major upgrades since then
Acquired with the purchase of Orion in 2003
More than $3 billion in upgrades implemented over the past several years
Total throughput capacity of approximately 250,000 barrels per day (BPD)
Wide ranges of petroleum products produced, including gasoline, kerosene, diesel fuel, No. 2 and No. 6 fuel oils, heating oil, liquefied petroleum gases (LPGs) and petroleum coke
Gasoline, distillates and other light products represent approximately 80 percent of product slate is gasoline
Located on approximately 1,000 acres in St. Charles Parish, La., along the Mississippi River, approximately 15 miles upstream of New Orleans
Access to the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) where it can receive crude oil through pipeline or from five marine docks along the Mississippi River
Finished products shipped over these docks or by pipeline into the Bengal and Colonial pipeline networks for distribution to the eastern seaboard of the United States
Employs approximately 530 individuals [1]