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Hunt Refining Company owns and operates a complex, full- conversion petroleum and asphalt refinery in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

In 2010, Hunt Refining Company completed a three-year expansion project of its Tuscaloosa refinery that took its capacity from 52,000 barrels per day to 72,000 barrels per day. As a result of the expansion, the refinery doubled the amount of gasoline and distillates that it produces and improved its flexibility in running various crude streams.

Below you can see some major units of the refinery (https://www.huntenergy.com/oil-gas/refining/):

Crude Unit (bottom left)

Hunt Refining Company’s Crude Unit processes up to 40,000 barrels per day. This unit separates crude oil into many different components including motor gasoline, kerosene, jet, diesel and asphalt. These streams then pass to other units for further processing before sales.

Hydrocracker (top left)

The hydrocracker is a high-pressure, high-temperature fixed-bed upgrader that processes gas oil produced at the refinery into naphtha and distillates, which are then further refined into finished gasoline, jet and diesel fuel. The capacity of the hydrocracker is 15,000 barrels per day.

Continuous Catalytic Reformer (top right)

The continuous catalytic reformer processes naphtha constitutes and reforms the molecules to produce high octane motor gasoline blend components through improved technology. It meets new low benzene regulations in gasoline and has a capacity of 16,000 barrels per day.

Delayed Coker (bottom right)

The delayed Coker was started up in 1984 and has nearly doubled in size from its initial capacity to 32,000 barrels per day currently. The Coker, together with a front-end crude oil heater, not only expands the crude oil processing capacity of the Tuscaloosa refinery but, more importantly, also provides flexibility in coking asphalt produced by the refinery to produce clean transportation fuels.