The description of what is there is below:
Located 13 kilometres west of Melbourne, the Altona Refinery supplies half of Victoria's fuel needs. It operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and processes crude oil into the full range of petroleum products.
The refinery produces up to 13 million litres of refined products per day - enough to fill more than 300,000 cars. Petrol represents approximately 60 percent of production, with diesel representing a further 30 percent and jet fuel around 10 percent.
After processing, refined products are pumped into storage tanks to await distribution. There are almost 100 storage tanks at the Altona Refinery and in the adjacent "tank farm".
The refinery had its humble beginnings as a lubricating oils and bitumen plant, with a capacity of around 2,200 barrels of crude a day. Construction began on the original refinery in 1946 by a joint venture between the Vacuum Oil Company (later Mobil) and Standard Oil (later Exxon / Esso). When it was built, the refinery nestled on land that was little more than a few empty paddocks far from the bustle of the CBD.
First production at the refinery was in the middle of 1949, but it wasn’t long before expansion was required to meet the increasing post-World War II demand for petroleum products.
Construction began in 1953, and increased the refinery’s output twelvefold, with the refinery able to produce almost 3.5 million litres a day. The centrepiece of the expansion was the introduction of the “Cat Cracker” – the Thermofor Catalytic Cracking unit (TCC) that rose 81 metres, twice as high as any office building in Melbourne or Sydney at the time.
The entire project involved 2,200 workers, cost 20 million pounds and took 22 months to complete. It enabled the refinery to extend its product range into motor vehicle fuels, as well as to refine the crude oil that had recently been discovered in New Guinea.
Altona was the first refinery in Australia to produce aviation fuel, and further expansion occurred in the late 1960s / 1970s, to allow the refinery to process crude oil from the newly developed Bass Strait fields.
The cache
I think that is probably enough numbers for you to go on with.
The cache can be found at:
1S8, 1M1, 1F4, 3W1, 2M7, 1S4, 2T2, 1F1, 1W6, 2M8, 5W7
Many thanks go to Carmotto for this idea.
