It was formally filed on January 18, 1996. The refinery is used to produce fuels, petrochemical feedstocks and petrochemical products.
Fuels produced include gasoline, jet fuel, distillates, residual fuels, and naphthas.
Petrochemical feedstocks include methane, ethane, propane, butane, butylene, ethylene, propylene and butadiene. Refinery by-products include sulfur and petroleum coke. In addition, some feedstocks used in chemical manufacturing may be sourced abroad including sulphuric acid and methyl mercaptan. Zone procedures would exempt the operations involved from Customs duty payments on the foreign products used in its exports. The application indicates that the savings from zone procedures would help improve the refinery's international competitiveness of the plants involved.