Corpus Christi (Citgo) refinery

Citgo's Corpus Christi refinery is a medium sized, high conversion refinery located on two sites (East Plant and West Plant) along the ship channel in Corpus Christi, Texas in the US.

The refinery is 100% owned and operated by the Citgo, formerly a subsidiary of  PDVSA.

Refinery configuration

Complexity: 15.5

Major process units:

Atmospheric distillation - 174 kbpd

Vacuum distillation - 85 kbpd

Coker - 46 kbpd - Foster Wheeler design. Expanded by Fluor Daniel.

FCC - 71 kbpd

Reformer - 52 kbpd - Continuous

Naphtha hydrotreater - 53 kbpd

Distillate hydrotreater - 102 kbpd

VGO hydrotreater - 71 kbpd - UOP HC Unibon process

FCC gasoline hydrotreater - 47 kbpd

Alkylation - 26 kbpd - HF acid

Aromatics extraction - 16.3 kbpd

Pet coke - 17 kbpd

Sulfur plant - 370 t/d

Land -  890 acres

Employees - 1050

Location

1801 Nueces Bay Blvd. Corpus Christi, TX 78407 USA

Corpus Christi refinery website

Refinery history

1935 - Built by Pontiac Refining

1970 - Refinery acquired by Champlin

1970 - Champlin acquired by Union Pacific Resources

1983 - Coker added (36 kbpd)

1987 - Champlin acquired by PDVSA

1991 - Champlin merged with Citgo

2006 - FCC gasoline hydrotreater added