Burnaby Refinery


The Burnaby Refinery is an oil refinery located in the city of Burnaby, [British Columbia], Canada formerly owned by Parkland Fuel [Corp.], currently owned by Sunoco following their 2025 acquisition of Parkland Fuel Corp. The facility refines crude oil|crude] and synthetic oil into gasoline, diesel, jet fuels, asphalts, heating fuels, heavy fuel oils, butanes, and propane. Crude oil is supplied to the facility from Northern British Columbia and Alberta through the 1,200-kilometre Kinder Morgan Pipe Line. The refinery is divided into Area 1 now used for offices and oil storage and Area 2 the modern refining area. The refinery has a Nelson Complexity Index of 9.1
Former and original owner-operator Chevron sold its Canadian assets to Parkland Fuel Corp for C$1.46 billion in April 2017, including 129 gasoline stations, three terminals and the Burnaby oil refinery.
According to the Oil & Gas Journal, the refinery completed a major turnaround in spring 2020.
The refinery became 100% owned by Sunoco LP, a USA based company in 2025.

History

The refinery was established in 1935 by Standard Oil of California as one of few heavy industries in the area at that time - 2000 bbls/day. Major expansion took place in the mid 1950s to 11,000 bbls/day as part of post war BC building boom. Further capacity increases in the mid 1970s to 35,000 bbls/day including a steady advancement in technology. Other lower mainland refineries were converted to terminals in the early 1990s with production transferred to Alberta.