Tula refinery

Also known as: 

Miguel Hidalgo refinery

The Tula refinery is a very large, high conversion refinery located north of Mexico City in Tula de Allende, Hidalgo in Mexico.

The refinery is owned and operated by Pemex.

Refinery configuration

Complexity: 9.4

Major process units:

Atmospheric distillation: 315 kbpd

Vacuum distillation - 144 kbpd

Coking - 19 kbpd

Visbreaking - 37.7 kbpd

FCC - 83 kbpd

Reformer (SR) - 61.8 kbpd

Naphtha hydrotreater - 84 kbpd

Distillate hydrotreater - 139.4 kbpd

VGO hydrotreater - 80 kbpd

FCC naphtha hydrotreater - 30 kbpd

Alkylation - 7.1 kbpd

C5/C6 Isomerization - 13.8 kbpd

Oxygenates plant - 4.6 kbpd

Asphalt plant - 5 kbpd

Location

Postal 12, Barrio Alto 1ra Secc, 42804 Tula de Allende, Estado de Hidalgo, Mexico

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Refinery history

1977 - Refinery opens with capacity of 177 kb/d

1987 - Second crude tower with capacity of 165 kb/d added

1994 - Second FCC added

1996 - MTBE, TAME, hydrotreater, isomerization added

1997 - H-Oil resid hydrocracker added