Because cars can’t run on crude! Neither can trucks, ships and planes. At Shell PSR we convert crude petroleum from the Alaskan North Slope (Valdez load port) and a much smaller amount via pipeline from Central and Eastern Canada. The crude is converted into fuels that power our engines and more. Our job is to help you get where you’re going—on the road, in the air, over the water, all over the world. We primarily serve the Pacific Northwest from the Canadian border to Portland, occasionally south to California. Our products are sold under the Shell and Texaco Brand names.

What Does this Shell Refinery Produce?

Our products

• Lead-free gasoline 
  ...for cars, trucks, boats, lawn mowers and more.
• Aviation turbine fuel 
  ...for jets flying from Sea-Tac International Airport.
• Diesel engine fuel 
  ...for trucks, boats, as well as, farm and industrial equipment.
• Bunker fuel oil 
  ...for large, sea-going ships.
• Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG, or propane)
  ...for cookstoves, heating and vehicles.
• Petroleum coke 
  ...for refining aluminum.
• Sulfur 
  ...for petrochemicals, gunpowder to rubber.

And our products are sold under the Shell and Texaco Brands.

Petrochemicals, by the way, are the raw materials for thousands of products, from roofing and auto insulation, refrigerator linings to house paints, clothing, detergents and sulfa drugs. The refinery also produces nonene—a building block of plastics

How We Bring It In

• North Slope crude oil comes to us by 800 foot tanker ships, each loaded with 21 million gallons.
• Canadian crude oil is piped to the plant by TransMountain pipeline. 
   

How We Ship It Out

• Liquid fuels are sent out by tanker trucks, pipeline, marine barges and tanker ships.
• LPG is distributed by tanker trucks and railcars.
• Petroleum coke is shipped by marine barges, ships and rail.
• Molten sulfur is distributed by trucks.