Bakersfield (San Joaquin) refinery

Also known as:

San Joaquin

San Joaquin is a very small, medium complexity, specialty products refinery in Bakersfield, California, in the US

It is owned and operated by San Joaquin refining

The refinery primarily produces asphalt and naphthenic base oils

Refinery configuraton

Complexity: 7.3

Major process units:

Atmospheric distillation - 25 kbpd

Vacuum distillation  - 14 kbpd

Visbreaking - 5 kbpd

Distillate hydrotreater - 4 kbpd

VGO hydrotreater - 2 kbpd

Hydrogen production - 4 MMscfd

Base oil plant - 6 kbpd

Asphalt plant - 8 kbpd

Aromatics - 1.5 kbpd

Hydrogen production - 4 MMCFD

Sulfur plant - 6 t/d

Location

3542 Shell St, Bakersfield, CA 93308

San Joaquin refinery website

Refinery history

1969 - Refinery commissioned

2016 - VGO hydrotreater added