Strathcona refinery
The Strathcona refinery is a large, medium complexity refinery located in Edmonton,Alberta in Western Canada.
It is 70% owned and operated by ExxonMobil through its Canadian subsidiary Imperial Oil.
Refinery configuration
Refinery configuration
Strathcona is a medium complexity plant with asphalt for bottoms conversion, but also an FCC and a small base oil plant
Complexity: 8.1
Major process units:
Major process units:
Atmospheric distillation - 191 kbpd
Reformer - Semiregen unit
Refinery history
Refinery history
1976 - New refinery commissioned on site of old Imperial Edmonton refinery
2025 - Adding a renewable diesel plant (20 kbpd) at a cost of $720MM. Will use low-carbon hydrogen employing CCUS provided by Air Products. FEED for newplant by Fluor. Bio feedstock will be souced locally.