Acronyms
VOC
Volatile Organic Compound
The year Salt Lake City hosted the Winter Olympics
2002
The year the refinery was established.
1908
MPC’s master limited partnership that owns and operates midstream energy infrastructure and logistics assets and provides fuel distribution services.
MPLX
The amount of gallons in a barrel of oil.
42
The main feedstock of the refinery that is made up of a mixture of components that the refinery converts into products (Gasoline, Jet fuel, Diesel) for sale to end consumers.
Crude Oil
LDAR
Leak Detection & Repair
The original location of the Utah Jazz, before the team relocated to Salt Lake City in 1979.
New Orleans
In 1953 the SLC Refinery became the first refinery in Utah to produce this product that today makes up ~15-20% of our refined products.
Jet Fuel
The number of crude oil refineries MPC operates.
13
The form of water most prevalent in the oil refining process.
Steam
Three main transportation methods out of SLC for feedstocks and products.
Rail, Truck, and Pipeline
TAR
Turnaround
On May 10th, 1869 the first kind of this was completed at Promontory, Utah and is now known as the Golden Spike Historical Site.
Trans-Continental Railroad
On November 25, 2019, this type of cleaner burning gasoline, produced by our refinery, made it’s debut at the Speedway on Beck Street.
Tier 3
Barrel per day capacity across all MPC refineries.
2.9 Million
Breaking large oil molecules down into lighter ones by the use of heat and catalyst.
Cracking
Refineries are often classified by the type of crude that they can process. Crudes range from light gravity to heavy gravity and from sweet (low sulfur) to sour (high sulfur). Salt Lake City refinery is referred to this type of refinery.
Light, Sweet
USW
United Steelworkers
Ashley, Dixie, Fishlake, Manti-LaSal, Uinta, Wasatch-Cache
Utah’s 6 national forests
This piece of equipment, which came online for the first time in 2018, reduced SO2 emissions from 550 tons per year to under 40 tons per year.
Wet Gas Scrubber
MPC’s largest barrel per day capacity refinery.
Galveston Bay
Environmental regulations dictate that a refinery has to remove certain pollutants from products before they leave the plant. This contributor to acid rain is removed in the refining process.
Sulfur
The difference between the price of crude and the price of gasoline, which is used as a measure of refinery profitability in a given market condition.
The Gas crack/Crack Spread
PHA
Process Hazard Analysis
The original location of this fast food establishment stands at 3900 South and State Street, about 1,500 miles away from where the original location would logically be.
KFC/Kentucky Fried Chicken
The first product the SLC refinery made.
Harness Oil
MPC’s ranking on the 2023 Fortune 500 list.
16
The 7 individual gasoline components that might go into a single gasoline blend [name at least 3].
Butane, DAN/LSR (includes LUF), LCN (light cat naptha, sometimes called pentane), HCN (heavy cat naptha), TUF/HUF (total ultraformate/heavy ultraformate), Toluene, Alkylate
The type of model used by refinery planning engineers to process many equations in a short period of time in order to find the optimal solution.
Linear Program or LP model