Chevron's global refining system manufactures fuels and other products sold by Chevron's marketing, lubricants, and supply and trading organizations. We market these products under three brands — Chevron, Texaco and Caltex.
Chevron's fuel refineries and an asphalt refinery can process more than 2 million barrels of crude oil per day.
Seven refineries make up more than 75 percent of the company's total fuel refining capacity. Five of these core refineries — in Singapore, Thailand, South Korea, and Richmond and El Segundo, California — manufacture products for countries in the Pacific Basin. The other two refineries, in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and Pembroke, Wales, United Kingdom, supply countries primarily in the Atlantic basin. Many of these refineries are capable of processing heavy crude oils and producing a variety of high-value products such as transportation fuels.
Operating safely, reliably and with a commitment to protecting the environment remain among our top priorities. Toward that end, we have implemented the Loss Prevention System throughout our Chevron wholly operated facilities. This tool is a behavior-based safety system designed to help strengthen our culture of injury-free and incident-free operations while also providing a base for strong, competitive performance.
Several of our refineries recently have undergone major upgrades.
The El Segundo refinery was upgraded in 2007. This southern California facility can now process heavier, higher-sulfur crude oils. The refinery in Pembroke has been modified to enable greater use of crude oils from our partners in the Caspian region.
In 2008, Chevron's 50 percent-owned GS Caltex affiliate completed an upgrade project at its refinery in Yeosu, South Korea, that allows it to produce low-sulfur diesel fuel. Additional upgrades have increased GS Caltex's production capacity of high-value products by 33,000 barrels per day and of new lubricants by 15,000 barrels per day. GS Caltex also has increased its flexibility to process heavier crude oils.
Chevron also is constructing a new continuous catalytic reformer unit at the Pascagoula refinery. This upgrade is expected to increase gasoline production by 10 percent, or 600,000 gallons per day, by mid-2010.
Updated: March 2009