Salt Lake City (Chevron) refinery
Chevron's Salt Lake City refinery is a small, high conversion refinery located in Salt Lake City, Utah in the US.
The refinery is 100% owned and operated by Chevron.
The refinery processes crude from the surrounding region (Utah, Wyoming, Colorado) and imports from Canada.
Product is placed in the local Salt Lake City market and also moves on the Northwest product pipeline and UNEV product pipeline.
Refinery configuration
Complexity: 9.6
Major process units:
Atmospheric distillation - 58 kbpd
Vacuum distillation - 28 kbpd
Coker - 10 kbpd - Delayed coker - Foster Wheeler, 2 drums, 19 ft diameter drums. Produces anode grade sponge coke.
FCC - 16 kbpd
Reformer - 9 kbpd - Semiregen
Naphtha hydrotreater - 9 kbpd
Distillate hydrotreater - 21 kbpd
VGO hydrotreater - 21 kbpd
Alkylation - 6 kbpd - HF acid unit converted to Iso-alky in 2021 using UOP technology
C4 Isomerization - 1 kbpd
Pet coke - 3 kbpd
Sulfur plant - 63 t/d
Employees - 740 (400 contractors)
Refinery history
1948 - Built by Standard Oil of California, with 14kbld capacity, focused on processing Rangely crude from Western Colorado
1973 - Coker added (7 kbpd)
1984 - Company changed name to Chevron
2006 - VGO hydrotreater added
2021 - Converted HF alkylation unit to new UOP IsoAlky technology. $87MM project.