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Acid Plant Database June 13, 2022
Owner | Irving Oil Whitegate Refinery Limited | |
Location | Whitegate, Midleton Co. Cork Ireland |
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Background | 1959 -
Irish Refining Company (operated by ESSO) 1981 - Refinery closed 1982 - Irish National Petroleum Corporation 2001 - Tosco 2001 - Tosco taken over by Phillips Petroleum 2002 - Phillips merged with Conoco to form ConocoPhillips 2012 - Phillips 66 assumed ownership 2016 - Purchased by Irving Oil |
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Website | www.irvingoil.com | |
Plant | Whitegate Refinery | |
Coordinates* | 51° 49' 10" N, 8° 14' 39" W (site) | |
Type of Plant |
Acid Regeneration Wet-Gas Sulphuric Acid (WSA) |
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Gas Source | Hydrogen Sulphide Gas | |
Plant Capacity | 30 MTPD | |
SA/DA | - | |
Emissions | - | |
Status | - | |
Year Built | 2012 | |
Technology | Haldor Topsoe | |
Contractor | - | |
Remarks | - | |
Pictures | ||
General | - | |
References | - | |
News | August 3, 2016
- Canadian refiner Irving Oil signed an agreement to purchase the 72,000 b/d
Whitegate refinery in Ireland from US downstream firm Phillips 66 today.
Irving oil - operator of Canada's largest refinery, the 300,000 b/d St John
plant in New Brunswick - will continue to run Whitegate as a refinery and
maintain the existing workforce. Irving expects the purchase to be completed
by the end of the third quarter, at which point it will assume full
ownership of the Whitegate plant. Phillips 66 will continue to operate the
refinery as usual until the transaction closes. Under Phillips 66
Whitegate processed light, low-sulphur crudes mainly from the North Sea,
north Africa and west Africa. In 2015, Whitegate processed 24.6mm bl of
crude — 84pc of this was from Norway, the UK and Denmark, 14pc from Ivory
Coast, Egypt, Nigeria and Algeria and 2pc from Azerbaijan. Irving Oil has
previously imported crude from west Africa and the North Sea to its Canadian
refinery. Phillips had been looking to sell Whitegate since late last
year, but was contractually obliged to ensure the plant kept running until
July, under the terms of sale agreed with the Irish government in 2001.
Those terms expired on 1 August, but Irving has said it will continue to
operate Whitegate as a refinery, despite not being under a contractual
obligation to do so. The Irish minister for communications, climate
action and environment, Denis Naughten, welcomed the announcement,
highlighting the importance of the Whitegate refinery to Ireland's energy
security and economic growth. Whitegate is Ireland's only refinery and
supplies up to 40pc of the country's oil products, according to the Irish
government. Phillips 66 initially put the Whitegate refinery and
associated marketing business up for sale in June 2013, then dropped the
idea in April 2014 before trying again the following year. In February
2015, Phillips 66 sold the Bantry Bay crude and refined products storage
facility, in southwest Ireland, to midstream asset operator Zenith Energy
Partners. The terminal has over 8mn bl of storage capacity. It has one of
the largest and deepest drafts in Europe and holds a portion of Ireland's
strategic petroleum reserve.
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MTPD - Metric Tonne per Day
STPD - Short Ton per Day
MTPA - Metric Tonne per Annum STPA - Short Ton per
Annum
SA - Single Absorption
DA - Double Absorption
* Coordinates can be used to
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