Montreal Refinery
![]() Refinery view from the Montréal-Est city hall | |
Country | Canada |
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Province | Quebec |
City | Montréal |
Coordinates | 45°38′38″N 73°31′21″W / 45.6438°N 73.5224°W |
Refinery details | |
Operator | Suncor Energy (formerly Petro-Canada) |
Owner(s) | Suncor Energy (formerly Petro-Canada) |
Commissioned | 1955 |
Capacity | 160,000 bbl/d (25,000 m3/d) |
No. of employees | 400 |
Refining units | alkylation, isomerisation, distillation of crude oil, hydrocracking, reforming catalytic, cracking catalytic, thermal catalytic, desulphuration, polymerization, hydrodesalkylation |
No. of oil tanks | 105 |
Oil refining center | Montreal |
The Montreal Refinery is an oil refinery located in the city of Montreal inside the Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles borough. The refinery is not far from the Montreal East Refinery. This refinery is the largest Suncor Energy refinery.
History
[edit]The Montreal refinery was originally commissioned by Petrofina on September 15, 1955, with a throughput of 20,000 bpd. In the 1970's, expansion work was undertaken to bring capacity to 95,000 bpd. In 1981, the then Crown corporation Petro-Canada acquired the Montreal refinery as part of a government backed $1.6 billion deal to acquire all Petrofina's Canadian assets. The last major expansion of the refinery occurred in 2005 when Petro-Canada made the decision to close a smaller refinery operating in Oakville, Ontario and consolidate the Eastern Canada operations in Montreal. A very substantial investment in the Montreal refinery was made to expand the capacity of that facility to approximately 130,000 bpd. In 2009, Suncor Energy and Petro-Canada merged their operations. The new company is operated under the Suncor name for its general and trading purposes, and under the Petro-Canada trademark for its refined products and its retail and wholesale network.