MOBIL REFINERIES SET PLANT RECORDS FOR 1991

June 1, 1992
Mobil Corp. refining operations set numerous records last year despite volatile markets for oil and petroleum products. In the U.S., where Mobil has a total of 838,000 b/d of refining capacity in five plants, Mobil surpassed its 1990 crude run record by 4% with a new high average of 744,000 b/d of crude oil. The company's U.S. capacity utilization rate climbed to 91% in 1991 from 87% in 1989 and 1990. Mobil's 1991 U.S. gasoline production rose by more than 5% to a new high of 442,000

Mobil Corp. refining operations set numerous records last year despite volatile markets for oil and petroleum products.

In the U.S., where Mobil has a total of 838,000 b/d of refining capacity in five plants, Mobil surpassed its 1990 crude run record by 4% with a new high average of 744,000 b/d of crude oil.

The company's U.S. capacity utilization rate climbed to 91% in 1991 from 87% in 1989 and 1990. Mobil's 1991 U.S. gasoline production rose by more than 5% to a new high of 442,000 b/d. The company also set production records for distillates and lubricants.

Mobil's largest U.S. refinery, at Beaumont, Tex., logged a record throughput of nearly 95,000 b/d in its fluid catalytic cracker. The plant is well along with a major expansion.

Mobil's Chalmette, La., refinery hit a new high in processing heavy, sour crude with an increase of 15% to nearly 80,000 b/d.

At Joliet, Ill., input of heavy Canadian crude rose to 50%, the highest achieved by the 180,000 b/d capacity plant.

Mobil's 123,000 b/d Torrance, Calif., refinery had the best operational year in its history, boosting crude oil runs by 20% and raising its previous high for production of gasoline and distillates by more than 25% to more than 100,000 b/d.

At the Paulsboro, N.J., refinery, performance of the coker exceeded the previous record rate by more than 20% with a throughput average of more than 20,000 b/d.

OUTSIDE THE U.S.

Refineries operated by Mobil affiliates set a number of company production records outside the U.S.

The Woerth, Germany, plant hit record levels for throughput of crude oil, averaging 101,000 b/d, as well as record throughput of 22,000 b/d in its fluid catalytic cracker.

Mobil's refinery at Coryton, U.K., hit a new peak in throughput in its fluid catalytic cracker amounting to 55,000 b/d, 7% above the former high.

Mobil Oil Australia's Adelaide refinery set two plant records, one for crude throughput of 64,000 b/d and another for production of gasoline and distillates amounting to 38,000 b/d. This refinery also won the government's "Best Practices" award. The refinery at Altona, near Melbourne, achieved a record of 99% in its "onstream factor," which measures performance outside planned turnarounds or supply related shutdowns.

The 1991 average on-stream factor for Mobil's non-U.S. refineries-wholly owned and joint ventures-was 98.2%, better than it was in 1990.

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