St John refinery

The St John refinery is a large, medium complexity refinery located on the East Coast of Canada in St John, New Brunswick.

It is 100% owned and operated by Irving Oil.

Refinery configuration

St John is a medium complexity plant with asphalt and RCC for bottoms conversion, as well as an FCC

Complexity: 7.7

Major process units:

Atmospheric distillation - 320 kbpd

Vacuum distillation 

Visbreaker 

FCC 

RCC 

Reformer - Semiregen unit

Naphtha hydrotreater 

Distillate hydrotreater 

VGO hydrotreater 

FCC gasoline hydrotreater 

Alkylation 

C4 Isomerization 

Asphalt plant 

Employees: 1400

Land: 780 acres

Location

340 Loch Lomond Rd, Saint John, NB, E2J3Z6, Canada

St John refinery website

Refinery history

1960 - Refinery commissioned by Irving in partnership with Standard Oil of California