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Martinez Refinery

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It refines stuff.

Founded in 1915. Was Shell's first US refinery. The terminal was built in 1913 by the American Gasoline Company. Address is 3485 Pacheco Blvd, Martinez, Ca, 94553. In 2020 it was Shell's only refinery in California.

Spilled 400,000 gallons of crude oil into the Carquinez Strait in 1988. Part of a "handful" of environmental incidents. In March 2019, Shell paid 165k to settle 16 air violations between 2015 and 2016. In December 2016 they flared off almost 20 tons. 73 flares between 2005 and 2018. Pump fire in process unit on June 7 2019, workers evacuated.

Gasoline is 85% of production. Also makes "asphalt, diesel, jet turbine fuel, petroleum coke, propane, residual fuel oils, and sulfur". In 2017 "the refinery has enjoyed a generally positive relationship with the city of Martinez over the years".

Shell had been trying to sell it since 2016. In 2021, Mercury News said that it would be affected by new rules (what are they?). The costs would be "approximately 0.62% of estimated annually revenue". PBF suggested $40 million project that would bring down particulate emissions. It was PBF's second refinery on the West Coast.

Located on 860-acre site. 157,000 barrels per day. Dual-coking refinery and integrated logistics. Royal Dutch Shell PLC's subsidiary (Equilon Enterprises, doing business as Shell Oil Products US) sold to PBF Energy. PBF owns it, the Martinez Refining Co. LLC (who they own) operates it. They were "in talks" in 2017. Sale completed in February 2020, for $1.2 billion. Cost of assets was $960.0 million, plus the value of the inventory. Part of global downstream divestment from Shell. Plans made to (more stuff about Shell's plans afterward, etc). "Martinez’s on-site logistics assets, including a deep-water marine terminal, product distribution terminals, and refinery crude and product storage installations with about 8.8 million bbl of shell capacity." "adjacent truck rack and terminal". Has a Nelson complexity index of 16.1 ("one of the most complex refineries in the United States"). Proposed renewable diesel thingy with idled equipment.

According to Dun & Bradstreet, annual revenue is 147.65 million.

In 2019, Shell employed over 700 people at the site. These employees were to be offered jobs at PBF when it took over.

The freaking goddamn coronavirus happened in 2020. PBF said their refineries running at 30% capacity. They sold five of the hydrogen plants nationwide, for a total of $530 mil. Two of them were at the Martinez facility. There are three hydrogen plants there, one had been owned by Air Products since 1996. They separate the sulfur from the other shit. They're steam methane reformer hydrogen production plants. In June 2021, PBF said that if new regulations went through, the Martinez plant would go kaput. This was to do with fluidized catalytic cracking units (more info in source).

Malfunctions in July 2018, health advisory issued in Martinez and Pacheco. Flaring incident July 6, fire at compressor unit, >100 lb of hydrogen sulfide. "five refinery problems over four days", >8500 lbs of gas. Lot of shit in this source.

Shit got slow during the freaking coronavirus. Throughput at 30% below expectations in April 2020. Transitioned to idle operating status.

Flaring incident in December 2016, "thousands of pounds of toxic gas" released. Caused by power outage. Decades-old substation. 39,000# of light hydrocarbons and hydrogen sulfide sent to flares on December 19 2016.

More stuff here.

And here.