Shell Anacortes Refinery
History
The refinery was built by Texaco in 1957. Its initial capacity of 45,000 barrels a day (bbl./d.) came online in 1958.
Before 1998 Shell Oil operated the neighboring Shell Anacortes Refinery (discussed below). Shell and Texaco combined their refining and marketing operations, assets valued at $17 billion, in 1997. The joint business was known as Equilon. Antitrust litigation accepted the deal under the condition that Shell sell its current refinery, located directly north of (adjacent to) the newly-acquired Equilon refinery. The jointly owned former Texaco refinery was renamed the Puget Sound Refinery. At the neighbor refinery, meanwhile, Tesoro, an independent Texas-based midstream and downstream company, won bidding for the old Shell Anacortes Refinery at $237 million, with an additional payment of $60 million for net working capital. Tesoro became Andeavor in 2017, and with Marathon Petroleum's purchase of Andeavor in 2018, the one-time Shell Anacortes Refinery became the Marathon Anacortes Refinery.
When Texaco merged with Chevron in 2001, Shell bought out Texaco's share of Equilon, making Shell the sole owner of both Equilon and the Puget Sound Refinery.
Shell sold the Puget Sound Refinery to the HollyFrontier in 2021 for $350 million. As of 2022 it has a capacity of 149,000 barrels a day and serves customers in the Pacific Northwest, including British Columbia, as well as the major international air and sea ports in the region.
References
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- ^ "EIA. Table 3. Capacity of Operable Petroleum Refineries by State as of January 1, 2015" (PDF). EIA Refinery Capacity Report. January 1, 2015. Retrieved October 3, 2015.
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- ^ "Tesoro Wins Bidding for Shell's Anacortes Plant". The Oil Daily. Archived from the original on 2016-02-22. Retrieved 2015-10-03.
- ^ "Shell to Brand New U.S. Gas Stations". Houston Business Journal. February 8, 2002. Retrieved January 21, 2022.
- ^ "Shell Sells U.S. Refinery in Latest Divestment". bloomberg.com. 4 May 2021. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
- ^ Puget Sound Refinery. "HF Sinclair Corporation | Home". HollyFrontier Corp. HollyFrontier Corp. Retrieved January 21, 2022.