Manufacturing Profile

Motiva Norco Refinery

The Norco Refining Company is located next to the Mississippi River, about 20 miles west of New Orleans, Louisiana. The Norco refinery is designed to convert approximately 240,000 barrels per day of crude oil, which is made up of approximately 75% of Louisiana sweet crudes and 25% of foreign crudes. The refinery also converts approximately 20,000 - 40,000 barrels per day of other feedstocks into gasoline, jet fuel, diesel and byproducts. We are considered a light, sweet (low sulfur) crude oil refinery.

Manufacturing Profile Here's how it all breaks down:

Approximately 38-55 percent of the volume of each crude barrel is separated directly into primary products.
The remaining 45-62 percent of the volume must be converted into primary products by further processing.
The maximum sulfur-in-crude weight is 0.70 percent.

The Motiva Norco refinery supplies gasoline and low sulfur diesel to the New Orleans markets. We also supply jet fuel to the New Orleans International Airport. In addition, our products leave by ship and pipeline to destinations all over the southeast United States and abroad. Listed below is a typical daily production schedule:

170,000 barrels per day of gasoline
46,000 barrels per day of jet fuel
50,000 barrels per day of low sulfur diesel fuel

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