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
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.