Philadelphia refinery
Philadelphia was a very large, medium complexity refinery comprised of two integrated sites (Point Breeze and Girard Point) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The plant was closed in 2019 after a major fire.
The refinery was owned and operated by a partnership between The Carlyle Group and Sunoco.
The refinery processed light sweet crude supplied from the international market by water and from domestic production by rail.
Refinery configuration (at time of shutdown)
Atmospheric distillation - 355 kbpd
Major process units:
Vacuum distillation - 163 kbpd
FCC - 139 kbpd
Reformer - 86 kbpd - Semiregen
Naphtha hydrotreater - 78 kbpd
Distillate hydrotreater - 163 kbpd
FCC gasoline hydrotreater - 65 kbpd
Alkylation - 26 kbpd - HF acid
C4 Isomerization - 5 kbpd
Aromatics extraction - 5 kbpd
Location
3144 Passyunk Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19153 USA
Refinery history
1870 - Point Breeze built by Atlantic refining
1920 - Girard Point built by Gulf Oil
1966 - Atlantic merges with Richfield to form ARCO
1982 - Gulf Oil (and Girard Point) acquired by Chevron
1985 - Investor acquires Point Breeze from ARCO and forms new Atlantic Oil Co
1988 - Sun acquires Atlantic Oil (and Point Breeze)
1994 - Sun acquires Girard Point from Chevron
1995 - Sunoco integrates two sites
2006 - VGO hydrotreater shut down and FCC gasoline hydrotreater added
2013 - PES acquires refinery
2020 - Refinery permanently closed after a major fire