Port Stanvac Refinery was an oil refinery in the Australian state of South Australia located in Lonsdale, a southern suburb of Adelaide. Its construction was announced in 1958 and began refining crude oil in 1963.[2]
It had a capacity of 3.3 million tons per annum[3] and was owned by ExxonMobil Australia (and previously Mobil). The refinery was mothballed in 2003, and in 2009 ExxonMobil announced its permanent closure and demolition.[4]
The 239 ha site is being demolished and cleaned up through 2019.[5][4] The site has been slated for a housing development. This was announced in November 2024, for completion in late 2020’s.
The refinery's most prominent structure, the 90 m chimney, was demolished on 31 January 2014. Mobil will face penalties if the site is not remediated by 2019.[4] The land will be sold in phases.[6]
Part of the site is now used for the Adelaide Desalination Plant.[4] Four gas turbines were installed by the Government of South Australia in 2017 for the Temporary Generation South power station. Operation was transferred to Infigen Energy in May 2020 under a 25 year lease, and will be moved to a different site at Bolivar.[7]
References
- Search results for "Port Stanvac Oil Refinery, Ftry" with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and Localities' and 'Gazetteer' Location SA Map Viewer, Government of South Australia, retrieved 10 April 2020^
- Mobil history ExxonMobil, 1999-11-30, retrieved 2012-11-01^
- Remco Van Santen. Table 1 Chemlink.com.au, retrieved 2012-11-01^
- Old Stanvac refinery set for demolition ABC News, 2009-06-25, retrieved 2012-11-01^
- Jessica Whiting. Exxon Mobil to demolish, remediate Port Stanvac Southern Times Messenger, 25 June 2009, retrieved 10 April 2020^
- Brett Clarke. Mobil site demolition may take years Southern Times Messenger, 11 January 2011, retrieved 10 April 2020^
- Firming Assets Infigen Energy, retrieved 13 March 2021^