Geelong Oil Refinery

The Geelong Oil Refinery is an oil refinery owned and operated by Viva Energy in Corio near Geelong in the Australian state of Victoria. In 2017, Australia's second-largest oil refinery processed 7.5 billion litres of crude oil annually.^[1]

Geelong Oil Refinery

Country	Australia
State	Victoria
City	Geelong
Refinery details
Operator	Viva Energy
Owner(s)	Shell Australia until 2014 Viva Energy since 2014
Commissioned	18 March 1954 (1954-03-18)
Capacity	7.5 billion litres per year

Geelong Oil Refinery, taken from M1 road

The Geelong refinery was established by Shell Australia in 1954.^[2] It was sold to global oil trader Vitol, which established Viva Energy to buy all of Shell's Australian downstream assets in August 2014.^[3]

In 2021, Geelong Refinery became one of only two oil refineries in Australia (with Lytton Oil Refinery in Brisbane) that had not closed or announced closure within the year.^[4]