Altona Refinery

The refinery at Altona is one of Victoria's most important industrial facilities:  

  • Provides half of Victoria’s fuel needs
  • Pays millions of dollars each year in taxes / rates
  • Provides employment for 350 people, and generates many thousand additional jobs through links with the wider community
  • Contributed millions of dollars to local schools, hospitals, community groups and environmental projects over the past 60 years
  • Capacity of 80,000 barrels a day

2009 marked the 60th anniversary of our operations in Altona – 60 years of fuelling Victoria.