Tulsa

Tulsa is a small, medium complexity refinery comprised of two integrated sites located in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the US.

The refinery is 100% owned and operated by HF Sinclair.

The refinery primarily processes domestic light sweet crude oil. 

Refinery configuration

East plant

Complexity: 5.5

Major process units:

Atmospheric distillation - 75.5 kbpd

Vacuum distillation - 27 kbpd

FCC - 27 kbpd

Reformer - 25 kbpd - Semiregen

Naphtha hydrotreater - 25 kbpd

Distillate hydrotreater - 45 kbpd

FCC gasoline hydrotreater - 29 kbpd

Alkylation - 6 kbpd

C5/C6 Isomerization - 13 kbpd

Asphalt plant - 15 kpd

Sulfur plant - 75 t/d

West plant

Complexity: 12.3

Atmospheric distillation - 91 kbpd

Vacuum distillation - 32 kbpd

Coker - 11 kbpd

Naphtha hydrotreater - 28 kbpd

VGO hydrotreater - 21.6 kbpd

C4 Isomerization - 0.9 kbpd

Base oil plant - 9.9 kpd

Asphalt plant - 6.5 kpd

Pet coke - 3 kbpd

Location

1700 S Union Ave, Tulsa, OK 74107 USA

Tulsa refinery website

Refinery history

1910 - First plant built by The Texas Company

1913 - Second plant built by Cosden

1925 - Cosden changes name to Mid-Continent Petroleum

1955 - Mid-Continent merged with Sunray

1968 - Sunray merged with Sun Oil

1983 - Texaco plant acquired by Sinclair

1998 - Sun changed name to Sunoco

2004 - Resid hydrotreater shut down (West Plant)

2009 - Sinclair Plant acquired by HollyFrontier

2009 - Sunoco plant acquired by HollyFrontier

2014 - SR reformer shut down (West Plant) and asphatl plant added

2016 - FCC expanded (5 kbpd) and modernized. $20MM project.