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Acid Plant Database  June 13, 2022

Owner Irving Oil Whitegate Refinery Limited

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Location Whitegate, Midleton
Co. Cork
Ireland
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
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)
Gas Source Hydrogen Sulphide Gas
Plant Capacity 30 MTPD
SA/DA -
Emissions -
Status -
Year Built 2012
Technology Haldor Topsoe
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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.

 

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
 

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