Valero Refining Texas Lp Bill Greehey Refinery Corpus Christi Refinery Energy Initiatives

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Valero Overview
-Valero Energy Corporation is a Fortune 500 company based in San Antonio, and is North  America's largest independent petroleum refiner and marketer. Valero supplies fuel and  products  that improve people's lives with 15 refineries and 10  etahnol plants stretching from California to Canada to the Caribbean.
-Valero's efforts in alternative energy range from production of corn ethanol to wind energy  to investments in emerging bio-fuels development.
-Valero's company-owned retail Corner Stores offer customers fast, friendly service in a safe and clean environment

Bill Greehey Refinery Overview
-Valero commissioned the grass-roots Corpus Christi refinery in 1983, now referred to as the

Bill Greehey Refinery West Plant
-In 2001 Valero acquired a 115,000 BPD refinery, now referred to as the Bill Greehey Refinery East Plant
-East and West plant facilities have a total feedstock throughput capacity of aboutv 315,000 BPD
-Refinery has three independent steam systems and two fuel gas systems
  -East and West fuel gas systems reveive gas from a third party supplier in addition to internally produced gasses
-Hydrogen is purchased from two outside suppliers as well as produced internally
  -East,West and Valero Three Rivers Refinery hydrogen systems connect via third supplier networks as      well as Valero owned East/West tie line
-The refinery purchases power as well as produces power from internally produced waste energy

Historic Energy Activities
-Steam Trap  Program
-Surveys completed every one two years
-Costs associated with improperly functioning traps are quantified and repairs scheduled
-Historic failure rate has been 3.5%

-Corporate Energy Scorecard
-Program has been in place since 2006
-Individual items rported include such things as Solamon Ell, heater and broiler excess air stack temperatures, Crude Unit heater approach temperatures, steam balancing and venting,  hot rundown giveaway, slop reprocssing, amine strengths and loadings and ammonia content of stripped sour waters
-Individual items are weighted and an overall score assigned