| Pembroke Refinery | |
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| Country | UK |
| City | Hundleton, Pembrokeshire |
| Refinery details | |
| Owner(s) | Valero |
| Commissioned | 1964 |
| Number of employees | 700 (2000)[1] |
The Pembroke Refinery is an oil refinery situated on the Pembrokeshire coast in Wales at Rhoscrowther in the community of Hundleton. It first came on stream in 1964. The refinery has a fluid catalytic cracking unit that came on stream in 1982. The refinery also has an HF Alkylation unit, catalytic reforming unit and three hydrotreating type units. Pembroke refinery has the capability of refining acidic crude oils like Captain and Doba crudes.
The refinery was initially owned by the Regent Oil Company, a large domestic marketer of Trinidad-produced oils.[2] Regent was fully acquired by Texaco in 1956 (although the brand name was only phased out in the UK in favour of Texaco in the late 1960s). Today the refinery is owned and branded by the Chevron Corporation, as a result of their acquisition of Texaco.[3] Chevron put the refinery up for sale in late 2009, and have agreed the sale for £750 million to Valero Energy Corporation.[4]
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In July 1994 an explosion and fire at refinery injured 26 workers and damaged houses as far away as Milford Haven.[5]
On 2 June 2011, an explosion and fire occurred at 18:20 BST. Ten fire and rescue service vehicles were sent to the scene, and the fire extinguished within an hour and a half. Four workers were killed.[6]
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