Sarnia (Shell) refinery

The Shell Sarnia refinery is a small, medium-complexity refinery located in Sarnia, Ontario in Eastern Canada.

It is 100% owned and operated by Shell through its Canadian subsidiary Shell Canada.

Refinery configuration

Sarnia is a medium complexity plant with only visbreaking for bottoms conversion, but both an FCC and a hydrocracker

Complexity: 7.5

Major process units:

Atmospheric distillation - 77 kbpd

Vacuum distillation 

Visbreaker 

FCC 

Hydrocracker 

Reformer - Semiregen unit

Naphtha hydrotreater 

Distillate hydrotreater 

FCC gasoline hydrotreater 

Polymerization 

Aromatics extraction 

Employees: 350

Location

130 St Clair Pkwy, Corunna, ON N0N 1G0, Canada

Sarnia refinery website

Refinery history

1952 - Commissioned by Canadian Oil Companies 

1963 - Acquired by Shell