Deer Park Refinery
Deer Park Refinery is an oil refinery located in Deer Park, Texas on the Houston Ship Channel in the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. Dating to 1929, it has been operated since 1993 as a 50-50 joint venture between Shell Oil Company and PEMEX.
As of December 2017, the plant is the fourth-largest taxpayer and the tenth largest employer in Harris County.
The refinery has a crude processing capacity, making it the 18th largest in the US, as of January 2019, with a facility that includes crude & vacuum distillation, delayed coker, fluid catalytic cracker, hydrocracker, polymerization, and alkylation units. Secondary processing units make the refinery's capacity.
Construction of the Deer Park refinery began in 1929, on an 800-acre site, and has expanded several times over the years. Construction of the petrochemical facilities began in 1940. Today, the facility encompasses 2,300 acres and employs 1,500 Shell employees, and 1,200 contract employees of several subcontractors. Shell Deer Park currently includes the refinery, Shell Deer Park Chemical Plant and Deer Park Refining Limited Partnership.
