{"id":56818,"date":"2021-02-17T10:22:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T15:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56818"},"modified":"2021-02-17T10:22:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T15:22:11","slug":"exxon-mobils-refinery-closure-in-australia-peak-oil-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56818","title":{"rendered":"Exxon Mobil\u2019s refinery closure in Australia: peak oil context"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exxon Mobil\u2019s refinery closure in Australia: peak oil context<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Exxon Mobil\u2019s Melbourne refinery is closing and will be converted into a fuel import terminal. The Australian public broadcaster has found the right title for its article:<\/p>\n

Australia loses another oil refinery, leaving our fuel supply vulnerable to regional crises
\n11\/2\/2021
\nhttps:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2021-02-11\/australia-loses-another-oil-refinery-risking-fuel-supply\/13139648<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Fig 1: Exxon-Mobil Altona refinery in Melbourne<\/p>\n

The refinery has a capacity of 86 kb\/d, around 10% of Exxon Mobil\u2019s Asia Pacific capacity.<\/p>\n

\"\"Fig 2: Exxon Mobil\u2019s refineries in Asia Pacific<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Altona refinery produces up to 14.5 million litres of refined products per day.<\/em>
\nPetrol represents approximately 60 percent of production [8.7 ML\/d], with diesel representing a further 30 percent [4.35 ML\/d] and jet fuel around 10 percent [1.45 ML\/d]. The percentage of each product depends on the type of feedstock used \u2013 different types of crude oil, for example, will produce more or less LPG from the refining process.<\/em><\/p>\n

Around 90 percent of products are transported by pipeline from the refinery to Mobil\u2019s Yarraville terminal and other industry terminals for distribution by road.<\/em><\/p>\n

The refinery supplies feedstock for the nearby Altona chemical complex, which in turn supplies feedstocks to a number of petrochemical manufacturing plants at Altona. These plants produce the raw material from which a multitude of consumer products are made.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.exxonmobil.com.au\/Energy-and-environment\/Energy-resources\/Downstream-operations\/Altona-Refinery#AltonaRefineryfacts<\/a><\/p>\n

How much is that compared to Victoria\u2019s fuel sales?<\/p>\n

\"\"Fig 3: Victoria\u2019s petroleum sales by product<\/p>\n

Between 2010 and December 2019 Victoria gasoline sales were practically flat at 400 ML\/month or 13.2 ML\/day. In contrast, Diesel sales increased by a whopping 5.5% pa from a trend average of 290 ML\/month in July 2010 to 440 ML\/month or 14.4 ML\/day by end 2019. Jet fuel sales increased from 100 ML\/month in 2010\/11 to 200 ML\/month or 6.5 ML\/day in 2018\/19 (jump due to international flights)<\/p>\n

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\nLet\u2019s stack it all up:<\/p>\n

\"\"Fig 4: Total Victoria fuel sales<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n

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Exxon Mobil\u2019s refinery closure in Australia: peak oil context Exxon Mobil\u2019s Melbourne refinery is closing and will be converted into a fuel import terminal. The Australian public broadcaster has found the right title for its article: Australia loses another oil refinery, leaving our fuel supply vulnerable to regional crises 11\/2\/2021 https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2021-02-11\/australia-loses-another-oil-refinery-risking-fuel-supply\/13139648 Fig 1: Exxon-Mobil Altona […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[41,184,6292,4095,10493,617],"class_list":["post-56818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-australia","tag-crude-oil","tag-crude-oil-peak","tag-exxon-mobil","tag-oil-refinery","tag-peak-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}