Shell Convent Refinery

Shell Convent Refinery is a refinery in United States. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming. It is operated by Shell PLC.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1753390.

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

Subsector: oil-and-gas-refining. Como refinery, requiere calor de proceso intenso (típicamente 200–600°C) para sus operaciones industriales centrales — calor que debe ser suministrado por calderas, hornos o combustión directa, y las pérdidas a través de recipientes y tuberías sin aislar representan combustible desperdiciado. El aislamiento modular desmontable puede reducir esas pérdidas en un 80–96%, enfriando superficies a ≤45°C, con amortización a menudo inferior a 2 años. Las refinerías calientan, fraccionan y transforman químicamente el petróleo crudo en combustibles y materias primas petroquímicas mediante destilación y craqueo que consumen mucha energía — extremadamente exigentes en generación de vapor y recuperación de calor.

Comparación de capacidad e intensidad de CO₂ calculada a partir de datos de instalaciones industriales de Climate TRACE; papel del sector basado en referencia de ingeniería.

Capacity vs largest oil refineries in United States

Reported capacity (BBL per day), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).

Operator

Operated by Shell PLC. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Shell Convent Refinery sits in a humid subtropical climate zone (Köppen Cfa), at 30.1°N in the northern hemisphere.

Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

How it compares & nearby sites

Nearby industrial sites

• AIR PRODUCTS & CHEMICALS INC - CONVENT SMR · Chemical Plant · 569,828 t CO₂
• Veolia Burnside Plant · Chemical Plant · 41,671 t CO₂
• Mosaic Faustina Plant · Chemical Plant · 720,108 t CO₂
• AMERICAS STYRENICS LLC - ST JAMES PLANT · Chemical Plant · 733,601 t CO₂
• Almatis Burnside Inc · Metals Plant · 249,878 t CO₂
• CF INDUSTRIES NITROGEN, LLC - DONALDSONVILLE NITROGEN COMPLEX · Chemical Plant · 1,688,422 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 30.10925, -90.89329. View on OpenStreetMap.

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