// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy was the Lemont Refinery worker sour? Bad oil days.
  Location within Illinois | |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Refinery details | |
| Operator | CITGO |
| Owner | CITGO |
| Opened | 1922 |
| Area | 1,100 acres (450 ha) |
| Capacity | 183,000 barrels per day (29,100 m3/d) |
| No. of employees | 1,050 |
Lemont Refinery is an oil refinery in Romeoville, Illinois owned and operated by CITGO Petroleum Corporation. Originally constructed in the early 1920s, it acquired a nearby refinery as Pure Oil and then it significantly expanded the refinery between 1968 through 1970 by its then owner Union Oil.[1] It has a current crude processing capacity of 183,000 barrels per day.[2] The refinery was the site of the 1984 Romeoville petroleum refinery disaster in which 17 people were killed.
The facility includes the following major units: one atmospheric distillation unit, one vacuum distillation unit, one fluid catalytic cracking unit, two catalytic reforming units, one alkylation unit, hydrodesulfurization units, and one coker units.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ Joanne Knoch (May 26, 1967). "Union Oil Plan for Big Lemont Refinery Told". Chicago Tribune.
- ↑ "Home >> Lemont >> About Us". CITGO Refining.
- ↑ "Engineering Site Report, Citgo Petroleum, Co., Lemont, IL" (PDF). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 2018.
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