Geelong Oil Refinery
CountryAustralia
StateVictoria
CityGeelong
Refinery details
OperatorViva Energy
Owner(s)
Commissioned18 March 1954 (1954-03-18)
Capacity7.5 billion litres per year
Geelong Oil Refinery, taken from M1 road

The Geelong Oil Refinery is an oil refinery owned and operated by Viva Energy in Corio near Geelong in the Australian state of Victoria. In 2017, it was Australia's second-largest oil refinery, able to process 7.5 billion litres of crude oil per year.[1]

The Geelong refinery was established by Shell Australia in 1954.[2] It was sold to global oil trader Vitol, which established Viva Energy to buy all of Shell's Australian downstream assets in August 2014.[3]

In 2021, Geelong Refinery became one of only two oil refineries in Australia (with Lytton Oil Refinery in Brisbane) that had not closed or announced closure within the year.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Australian oil refineries" (PDF). Factsheet. Australian Institute of Petroleum. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Shell's Geelong refinery chief". Brisbane Telegraph. Queensland, Australia. 12 March 1954. p. 12 (LAST RACE). Retrieved 13 March 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "Vitol completes acquisition of Shell's Australian Downstream business; Launches Viva Energy Australia" (Press release). Viva Energy. 13 August 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
  4. ^ Clayton, Rachel (24 February 2021). "Geelong's Viva Energy records $95 million loss for oil refinery". ABC News. Retrieved 13 March 2021.

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