Refinery in United States. Approximate location 27.8179, -97.50553.
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Buckeye Partners Corpus Christi Refinery is a refinery in United States with a reported capacity of 60,000 BBL per day. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming. It is operated by Buckeye Partners LP. By capacity it ranks #89 of 134 oil refineries tracked in United States. It emits about 365,321 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 85,156 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 28% below the median refinery.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1753353.
Com 60,000 BBL per day, Buckeye Partners Corpus Christi Refinery é abaixo de a mediana de refinery em United States (93,500 BBL per day). Seu CO₂ por unidade de capacidade é aproximadamente 37% abaixo de a mediana de refinery. Subsetor: oil-and-gas-refining. Como refinery, requer calor de processo intenso (tipicamente 200–600°C) para suas operações industriais centrais — calor que deve ser fornecido por caldeiras, fornos ou combustão direta, e as perdas através de vasos e tubulações não isolados representam combustível desperdiçado. O isolamento modular removível pode reduzir essas perdas em 80–96%, esfriando superfícies a ≤45°C, com payback geralmente inferior a 2 anos. As refinarias aquecem, fracionam e transformam quimicamente o petróleo bruto em combustíveis e matérias-primas petroquímicas através de destilação e craqueamento que consomem muita energia — extremamente exigentes em geração de vapor e recuperação de calor.
Comparação de capacidade e intensidade de CO₂ calculada a partir dos dados de instalações industriais Climate TRACE; função do setor baseada em referência de engenharia.
This facility's reported annual CO₂e in the everyday equivalents from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies calculator:
Equivalencies: US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies. Emissions: Climate TRACE.
Reported capacity (BBL per day), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Buckeye Partners LP. All facilities by this operator →
Buckeye Partners Corpus Christi Refinery sits in a humid subtropical climate zone (Köppen Cfa), at 27.8°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #89 largest of 134 oil refineries in United States by reported capacity.
Coordinates 27.8179, -97.50553. View on OpenStreetMap.
A refinery like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: crude & vacuum distillation columns, fired heaters, heat exchangers, steam lines, valves & flanges (surface/process temperatures around 150–550 °C). These surfaces lose energy to the air year-round; removable modular insulation cuts that loss, brings outer surfaces to ≤45 °C, and unclips for inspection.
On an already-insulated site (pipes & valves in cladding / jackets), closing the remaining gaps, flanges and damaged sections and switching to removable covers indicatively recovers about 35,000 MWh/yr (≈ 6,900 t CO₂/yr) — scaled to this site's reported CO₂ within its sector. Bare or damaged surfaces recover several times more.
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Indicative, not a measurement. Conservative floor for an already-insulated plant; a TIPCHECK on-site audit gives a measured figure. Industry context: EiiF TIPCHECK — industrial insulation can save ~14 Mtoe/yr in EU, payback typically <2 years.
Bare hot surfaces here exceed the touch-safe limit (EN ISO 13732-1); insulation to ≤45 °C is a worker-safety and compliance win. And before electrification, fuel-switching or CCS, eliminating surface heat loss is the cheapest, fastest, lowest-risk step — audit the bare spots first, rip-and-replace later.
Funding. Investment tax credit up to 30% of qualified investment incl. industrial decarbonization; open to small/medium/large manufacturers.
Obligation. None at federal level (voluntary). Some states have their own programs. (applies as a rule above the stated threshold — we don't hold this site's metered energy use).
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Buckeye Partners Corpus Christi Refinery is a refinery in United States. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming.
Buckeye Partners Corpus Christi Refinery has a reported capacity of 60,000 BBL per day.
Buckeye Partners Corpus Christi Refinery emits about 365,321 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 85,156 cars. That ranks #321 among tracked facilities in United States.
Buckeye Partners Corpus Christi Refinery is in United States, near coordinates 27.8179, -97.50553.
Buckeye Partners Corpus Christi Refinery is operated by Buckeye Partners LP.
