Montreal Refinery
The Montreal Refinery is an oil refinery located in the city of Montreal inside the Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles borough. The refinery is not far from the Montreal East Refinery. This refinery is the largest Suncor Energy refinery.
 Refinery view from the Montréal-Est city hall | |
  Location of the Montreal Refinery in Quebec | |
| Country | Canada |
|---|---|
| Province | Quebec |
| City | Montréal |
| Coordinates | 45.6438°N 73.5224°W |
| Refinery details | |
| Operator | Suncor Energy (formerly Petro-Canada) |
| Owner(s) | Suncor Energy (formerly Petro-Canada) |
| Commissioned | 1955 |
| Capacity | 160,000 bbl/d (25,000 m3/d) |
| No. of employees | 400 |
| Refining units | alkylation, isomerisation, distillation of crude oil, hydrocracking, reforming catalytic, cracking catalytic, thermal catalytic, desulphuration, polymerization, hydrodesalkylation |
| No. of oil tanks | 105 |
| Oil refining center | Montreal |
History
The Montreal refinery was originally commissioned by Petrofina on September 15, 1955, with a throughput of 20,000 bpd. In the 1970's, expansion work was undertaken to bring capacity to 95,000 bpd. In 1981, the then Crown corporation Petro-Canada acquired the Montreal refinery as part of a government backed $1.6 billion deal to acquire all Petrofina's Canadian assets. The last major expansion of the refinery occurred in 2005 when Petro-Canada made the decision to close a smaller refinery operating in Oakville, Ontario and consolidate the Eastern Canada operations in Montreal. A very substantial investment in the Montreal refinery was made to expand the capacity of that facility to approximately 130,000 bpd. In 2009, Suncor Energy and Petro-Canada merged their operations. The new company is operated under the Suncor name for its general and trading purposes, and under the Petro-Canada trademark for its refined products and its retail and wholesale network.