Our team in Campbell Industrial Park in Kapolei imports crude oil from locations around the globe and turns it into products that Hawaii needs. Our refinery teams work every day, 24/7 to turn crude oil into products such as gasoline, diesel, fuel oil, ship fuel and aviation fuel. We are also sourcing plant-based oils and recycled cooking oil to produce renewable fuels, including renewable naphtha, renewable diesel, and sustainable aviation fuel.

Hawaii has no crude oil sources of its own and Par Hawaii takes on the responsibility of importing crude oil from other parts of the world to make the energy products Hawaii needs. Oil tankers deliver crude oil at Par Hawaii’s single point mooring, a floating terminal about 1.5 miles off of Barbers Point. Crude oil is transferred from the mooring to the refinery onshore through undersea pipelines.

Our Processing Units

The refinery’s crude distillation unit separates crude oil into different components that are used to make refined petroleum products. The vacuum distillation breaks these components down even further.

Ready for Renewables

The distillate hydrocracker converts these components into products such as jet fuel. The distillate hydrotreater, one of the refinery’s newest units, was a $27 million investment completed in 2018 to produce clean ultra-low sulfur diesel and enable the refinery to produce more jet fuel. Both the hydrocracker and hydrotreater may also be used to produce renewable energy, including sustainable aviation fuels, in the future.

Par Hawaii’s refinery has the capacity to store 5.2 million barrels of crude oil and refined products. There is additional storage at Par Hawaii’s Sand Island terminal and on the neighbor islands. A barrel is equivalent to 42 gallons.