Project Profile

Location: Baytown, Texas

Capacity: 584,000 barrels of crude oil per day

Start-up Year: 1920

Baytown Refinery is the second largest oil refinery in the United States located in Baytown, Texas. It has capacity of 584,000 barrels per day (92,800 m3/d).

Founded in 1919, the Baytown Refinery began operation in 1920 and the Chemical Plant started up in 1940.

The complex is located on approximately 3,400 acres along the Houston Ship Channel, about 25 miles east of Houston. It is comprised of four manufacturing sites, including one in nearby Mont Belvieu, and a global technology center. Employing a workforce of approximately 7,000, the Baytown area sites are highly integrated which makes the plants and products more efficient. We are developing technologies to make cleaner fuels and are working together to operate more safely and reliably.

Refining Units

Atmospheric Distillation, 572,500 bpd

Vacuum Distillation, 288,600

Delayed Coker, 51,400

Fluid Coker, 42,500

Fluidised Catalytic Cracker, 215,500 + 8,000

Hydrocracker, 28,000

Catalytic reformer, 126,000

Solvent Deasphalting, 49,000

Naphtha Desulphurisation, 157,000

Gasoline Desulphurisation, 80,000

Kerosine Desulphurisation, 34,500

Other distillate Desulphurisation, 206,500

Heavy Gas Oil Desulphurisation, 110,000

Operator:

ExxonMobil Chemical: Operator with 100% interest

Contractors:

EPC Contract  to build olefins recovery units:

Linde Engineering North America, Inc.
Bechtel Oil, Gas, and Chemicals, Inc.

EPC contract for new olefins furnaces:

Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co, Ltd.
Huertey Petrochem S.A.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries: Contract to construct two 650,000 tons-per-year high-performance polyethylene lines.

Jacobs Engineering, Ltd.: Contract to oversee enabling works and interconnections at both locations and to provide engineering, procurement, and construction services (ethane cracker).

Dashiell Corporation and Wood Group Mustang: Contract to provide specialty contracting services.