Texas City Refinery
1301 Loop 197 South
Texas City, TX 77590
(409) 945-4451![Call: (409) 945-4451]()
Overview
The Valero Texas City Refinery is located on the Texas City Ship
Channel, approximately 40 miles southeast of Houston. With several recent
upgrading projects, the refinery provides significant feedstock flexibility and
product diversity to Valero's Gulf Coast operations. The plant dates to 1908,
originally built to process 1,500 barrels per day of Oklahoma crude oil. The
refinery has gone through continuous upgrades and expansions since then,
including major upgrades from 1955 to 1970 when the total throughput of the
refinery was increased from 40,000 to 130,000 barrels per day. In 1996, gas oil
hydrotreater and residual oil solvent extraction units were commissioned along
with significant revamps to the fluid catalytic cracking unit and the No. 3
crude unit. Since acquiring the refinery in 1997, Valero has invested more than
$750 million in expansions and upgrades at Texas City. Most recently, the plant
completed a major expansion consisting of a new delayed coker and a gasoline
desulfurization unit. These expansions and upgrades give the facility a great
deal of feedstock flexibility, resulting in a higher gross margin than a
conventional refinery. The new units allow the crude units to run lower-value,
heavier-gravity crude feedstocks to produce a large slate of low-sulfur, clean
fuels.
Awards & Honors
Holds an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Volunteer
Protection Program (VPP) Star designation, the agency's highest plant safety
recognition
Received a Meritorious Safety Performance Award in 2015 from American Fuel &
Petrochemical Manufacturers, for achieving an employee total recordable
incidence rate (TRIR) of 0.6 or less (0.2) per 200,000 working hours over the
previous calendar year
Earned Valero Chairman's Environmental awards in 2014 and 2011, and the Chairman's Safety Award in 2012
Community Activities
- Pledged more than $360,000 to the local United Way for 2018, with additional donations and a company match expected to bring total plant contributions to approximately $540,000
- Distributed $415,000 in 2017 to 24 area children’s charities from the Valero Texas Open and Benefit for Children
- Holds many volunteer events logging more than 2,500 total hours annually