Kwinana Refinery
Kwinana Refinery may refer to: *Kwinana Nickel Refinery *Kwinana Oil Refinery Kwinana Oil Refinery was sited on the shore of Cockburn Sound at Kwinana, near Fremantle, Western Australia. Built by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and completed in 1955, it was the largest oil refinery in Australia, with a capacity of . It was ...

Kwinana Nickel Refinery
The Kwinana Nickel Refinery is a nickel refinery in East Rockingham and Kwinana Beach, Western Australia. The refinery is operated by BHP and part of its Nickel West operations. Having originally been built by WMC Resources, it changed ownership in 2005 when BHP acquired WMC. Operations Kwinana is part of BHP's Nickel West operations, which includes, apart from Kwinana, the Leinster Nickel Mine, the Mount Keith Mine, the Kambalda Nickel Concentrator and the Kalgoorlie Nickel Smelter. At Kwinana, nickel matte refined into nickel powder and briquettes at a grade of 99.8 percent nickel. In late 2021, a nickel sulphate plant opened at the refinery, the first in Australia. Nickel sulphate is a key component of lithium-ion batteries, which are used to power electric vehicles. History Soon after developing its Kambalda nickel deposit, the Western Mining Corporation, WMC, started looking into the possibility of producing refined nickel. The company decided to use the Sherritt Gordo ...
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