Port Stanvac Refinery

Port Stanvac[lower-alpha 1]
	Location of Port Stanvac[lower-alpha 2]
Country	Australia
Province	South Australia
City	Adelaide
Coordinates	35°06′37″S 138°28′16″E[1]
Refinery details
Owner(s)	Exxon Mobil
Commissioned	1958
Decommissioned	2009

Port Stanvac Refinery was an oil refinery in the Australian state of South Australia located in Lonsdale, a southern suburb of Adelaide. Its construction was announced in 1958 and began refining crude oil in 1963.[2]

It had a capacity of 3.3 million tons per annum[3] and was owned by Exxon Mobil. The refinery was mothballed in 2003, and in 2009 Exxon Mobil announced its permanent closure and demolition.[4]

The 239 hectares (590 acres) site is being demolished and cleaned up through 2019.[5]

The refinery's most prominent structure, the 90 metres (300 ft) chimney, was demolished on 31 January 2014. Mobil will face penalties if the site is not remediated by 2019.[4] The land will be sold in phases.[6]

References

Notes

STANVAC is short for the Standard Vacuum Oil Company, a joint venture between the Socony Vacuum Oil Company of New York and Standard Oil of New Jersey, the latter the predecessor to Exxon Mobil.
STANVAC is short for the Standard Vacuum Oil Company, a joint venture between the Socony Vacuum Oil Company of New York and Standard Oil of New Jersey, the latter the predecessor to Exxon Mobil.

Citations

"Search results for "Port Stanvac Oil Refinery, Ftry" with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and Localities' and 'Gazetteer'". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
"Mobil history". Exxonmobil.com. 30 November 1999. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
Remco Van Santen. "Table 1". Chemlink.com.au. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
"Old Stanvac refinery set for demolition - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". Abc.net.au. 25 June 2009. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
Whiting, Jessica (25 June 2009). "Exxon Mobil to demolish, remediate Port Stanvac". SOUTHERN TIMES MESSENGER. Archived from the original on 5 March 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
Clarke, Brett (11 January 2011). "Mobil site demolition may take years". SOUTHERN TIMES MESSENGER. Archived from the original on 5 March 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2020.

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[1] STANVAC is short for the Standard Vacuum Oil Company, a joint venture between the Socony Vacuum Oil Company of New York and Standard Oil of New Jersey, the latter the predecessor to Exxon Mobil.

[2] STANVAC is short for the Standard Vacuum Oil Company, a joint venture between the Socony Vacuum Oil Company of New York and Standard Oil of New Jersey, the latter the predecessor to Exxon Mobil.

[LMV-3] "Search results for "Port Stanvac Oil Refinery, Ftry" with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and Localities' and 'Gazetteer'". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 10 April 2020.

[4] "Mobil history". Exxonmobil.com. 30 November 1999. Retrieved 1 November 2012.

[5] Remco Van Santen. "Table 1". Chemlink.com.au. Retrieved 1 November 2012.

[autogenerated1-6] "Old Stanvac refinery set for demolition - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". Abc.net.au. 25 June 2009. Retrieved 1 November 2012.

[7] Whiting, Jessica (25 June 2009). "Exxon Mobil to demolish, remediate Port Stanvac". SOUTHERN TIMES MESSENGER. Archived from the original on 5 March 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2020.

[8] Clarke, Brett (11 January 2011). "Mobil site demolition may take years". SOUTHERN TIMES MESSENGER. Archived from the original on 5 March 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2020.