GEELONG OIL REFINERY
WORK TO START SOON ON NEW UNITS (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, December 16. Construction work on one of the first “cater acker complexes”—units for converting heavy oil to motor spirit —is planned to begin next year at the Geelong refinery, it was announced in London tonight. The new plant, due for completion about the middle of 1955, wall have an intake capacity of 650,000 tons a year. The project forms part of a construction programme designed to make Geelong one of the biggest and most modern oil refineries in the Commonwealth. The first stage of the programme, comprising a crude distillation unit with a capacity of about 1,750,000 tons a year, is expected to be completed in the spring of 1954. Under present plans crude oil for the refinery will come from the Middle East and the Seria oilfield of British l Borneo, both of which are “virtually 100 per cent.” sterling sources of supply. The Shell Company’s qpnouncement said the Geelong refinery is one item, in a £100,000,000 refinery construction programme which is being undertaken by the oil industry in Australia.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27226, 18 December 1953, Page 14
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