2021, Jan 21 –
Valero Energy Reports 2020 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results and Declares Regular Cash Dividend on Common Stock here.
While reporting a a net loss attributable to Valero stockholders of $359 million, or $0.88 per share, for the fourth quarter and $1.4 billion, or $3.50 per share, for the year there were highlights with their renewable fuels divisions including the approval of a new 470 million gallons per year renewable diesel plant at Valero’s Port Arthur refinery (DGD 3), which is expected to commence operations in 2023.
The renewable diesel segment, which consists of the Diamond Green Diesel (DGD) joint venture, reported $127 million of operating income for the fourth quarter of 2020, compared to $541 million for the fourth quarter of 2019. After adjusting for the retroactive blender’s tax credit in 2019, adjusted renewable diesel operating income was $187 million for the fourth quarter of 2019. Renewable diesel sales volumes averaged 618 thousand gallons per day in the fourth quarter of 2020, a decrease of 226 thousand gallons per day versus the fourth quarter of 2019 due to the effect of planned maintenance in the fourth quarter of 2020. The renewable diesel segment set a record for annual sales volumes of 787 thousand gallons per day in 2020. As a result of continuous process improvement and optimization, the capacity of the existing St. Charles renewable diesel plant (DGD 1) has increased from 275 million gallons per year to 290 million gallons per year.
Valero Energy has revealed it will proceed with a new 470 million gallon renewable diesel plant at its facility in Port Arthur, Texas.
Valero and Darling Ingredients announced in a statement that their joint-venture, Diamond Green Diesel (DGD), has received approval by both boards to move ahead with construction.
“The project is moving forward immediately and we fully plan to utilise the first mover advantage DGD has in North America as we believe Darling’s vertical integration coupled with Valero’s refining expertise are key to providing low carbon feedstocks to the DGD renewable diesel platform,” said Darling CEO Randall Stuewe in the statement.
The new facility’s capacity will be able to produce annually and is expected to come online in the second half of 2023. It will be situated near Valero’s 335,000 b/d Port Arthur refinery.
Currently, DGD operates the St Charles Renewable Diesel Plant – DGD 1 – adjacent to Valero’s 215,000 b/d Norco, Louisiana, refinery where capacity has increased from 275 million gallons per year to 290 million gallons per year “as a result of the continuous process improvement and optimisation,” said Joe Gorder, Valero’s CEO.
With the DGD 2 expansion currently under way, the plant’s capacity is being expanded by 400 million gallons per year and will reach 690 million gallons per year by the end of 2021.
When DGD 3 – the Port Arthur plant – comes online DGD expects to be able to produce 1.2 billion gallons of renewable diesel and 50 million gallons of renewable naphtha with the addition of the Port Arthur facility.
Valero reported renewable diesel sales of 618,000 gallons per day in the fourth quarter, down 226,000 million gallons per day from the year earlier due to planned work. For 2021, Valero expects renewable diesel sales volumes to average 790,000 million gallons per day