Oakville Refinery (Shell Canada)

Not to be confused with Oakville Refinery.

Shell Oakville Refinery
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
City	Oakville
Refinery details
Operator	Shell Canada
Owner(s)	Shell Canada
Commissioned	1953 (1953)
Decommissioned	1983
Capacity	44,000 bbl/d (7,000 m3/d)
Oil refining center	Toronto

Shell Oakville Refinery was an oil refinery located at Oakville, Ontario in Canada. It was located south of the Oakville Refinery, operated by Petro-Canada. It had a processing capacity of 44,000 barrels per day (7,000 m³/d).^[1]

The refinery was decommissioned in 1983. The site has been cleaned up and redeveloped as a residential area, with parkland.

References

1. ^ Ibbotson, B.G.; Gorber, D.M.; Reades, D.W.; Smyth, D.; Munro, I.; Willes, R.F.; Jones, M.G.; Granville, G.C. et al. (1988). "A Site Specific Approach for the Development of Soil Cleanup Guidelines for Trace Organic Compounds". In Kostecki, Paul T.; Calabrese, Edward J.. Petroleum Contaminated Soils: Remediation techniques, environmental fate, risk assessment, analytical methodologies, regulatory considerations. Petroleum Contaminated Soils. 3. CRC Press. pp. 321–325. ISBN 9780873711357. http://books.google.com/books?id=_Db2UpvOdgAC&pg=PA321. Retrieved 2009-08-16. 

Coordinates: 43°22′54″N 79°43′19″W / 43.3816°N 79.7220°W / 43.3816; -79.7220