Crude oil is supplied to the facility from Northern British Columbia and Alberta through the 1,200-kilometre Kinder Morgan Pipe Line.
[4] The refinery has a Nelson Complexity Index of 9.1[5] Former and original owner-operator Chevron sold its Canadian assets to Parkland Fuel Corp for C$1.46 billion ($1.09 billion) in April 2017, including 129 gasoline stations, three terminals and the Burnaby oil refinery.
[7] 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.
Other lower mainland refineries were converted to terminals in the early 1990s with production transferred to Alberta.