MOBIL TEXAS REFINERY TO GROW

Mobil Corp. will modernize and expand its biggest U.S. refinery at a cost of more than $300 million. The project will boost crude oil capacity of its Beaumont, Tex., plant to 325,000 b/d from the present 285,000 b/d, substantially increase production of superunleaded gasoline and distillate fuels, and reduce sulfur and nitrogen dioxides emissions. Construction is to begin in the third quarter of this year and be complete by third quarter 1992.

March 26, 1990

Mobil Corp. will modernize and expand its biggest U.S. refinery at a cost of more than $300 million.

The project will boost crude oil capacity of its Beaumont, Tex., plant to 325,000 b/d from the present 285,000 b/d, substantially increase production of superunleaded gasoline and distillate fuels, and reduce sulfur and nitrogen dioxides emissions.

Construction is to begin in the third quarter of this year and be complete by third quarter 1992.

Scheduled are expansion of the distillation unit to hike crude capacity, expansion of a coker unit for greater flexibility to run heavy crude oils, installation of a new sulfur recovery plant, expansion of the hydrocracking unit, and addition of a continuous catalytic reformer to increase production of superunleaded.

Mobil aims to improve the refinery's competitiveness through greater reliability and octane capacity by shutting down older processing units and using new technology in existing units.

Said Mobil Chairman Allen E. Murray, "The overall outlook for the refining and marketing business in the U.S. has improved a lot in recent years, and we think it will improve further."