Yorktown Refinery was an
oil refinery
An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refined into useful products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, asphalt base, fuel oils, heating oil, kerosene, lique ...
in Virginia located alongside of the
York River built in 1956. It is now used by Plains All American Pipeline LP as a rail and water oil terminal.
The refinery used to be operated by Giant Industries and earlier operated by BP/Amoco. Giant Industries was acquired by
Western Refining
Western Refining, Inc., is a Texas-based Fortune 200 and Global 2000 crude oil refiner and marketer operating primarily in the Southwestern, North-Central and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. Western Refining (WNR) has been publicly tr ...
in 2007. The refinery could run high
TAN
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crude oil (crude oil with a high content of
naphthenic acid
Naphthenic acids (NAs) are a mixture of several cyclopentyl and cyclohexyl carboxylic acids with molecular weight of 120 to well over 700 atomic mass units. The main fraction are carboxylic acids with a carbon backbone of 9 to 20 carbons. McKee et ...
s). The refining operations were shut down in the fall of 2010 and the refinery was later demolished.
References
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Giant Industries
Energy infrastructure completed in 1956
Oil refineries in the United States
Energy infrastructure in Virginia
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