Matraville Refinery

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Matraville Refinery
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Location of Matraville Refinery
CountryAustralia
State New South Wales
City Sydney
Coordinates 33°58′16″S151°13′59″E / 33.971°S 151.233°E / -33.971; 151.233
Refinery details
Owner(s) Boral
Total
Commissioned1947
Decommissioned1984

Matraville Refinery was an oil refinery in the Australian state of New South Wales.

Bitumen and Oil Refineries (Australia) Limited (later named by the acronym Boral) commenced construction of Australia's first bitumen and oil refinery in Matraville in March 1947. [1] The company was 40% owned by Caltex which supplied the crude oil to be refined. Most of the early employees were discharged from the Royal Australian Navy. [2] In 1968 Boral sold a 50% stake to Total, before selling it the remainder in January 1972. [3] In 1979, the plant was expanded. [4]

It closed in 1984 and was demolished in 1988. [5] [6] [7]

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References

  1. First Bitumen Refinery Sydney Morning Herald 29 March 1947 page 15
  2. "1946 - 1949". Boral. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017.
  3. Boral shareholders approve Canberra Times 4 April 1968 page 25
  4. NSW Government to partner Total Canberra Times 11 August 1979 page 11
  5. State price-fixing cost $47m, Caltex chairman says Canberra Times 19 April 1984 page 15
  6. Profits rise for Ampol Canberra Times 21 February 1096 page 18
  7. highplains68 (1988). "Total demo".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)