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)

Location

2398 N 1100 W, North Salt Lake, UT 84054 USA

Salt Lake City refinery website

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. 

Crude unit

Coker

Refinery at night

Early refinery