Wood River Refinery

Summary Information

• Ownership: Phillips 66
• Website:
  • http://www.phillips66.com/
  • www.cenovus.com
• List of Phillips 66 Refineries
• Location: Roxana, Illinois, USA
• Capacity: 17.8 million tons/annum & 356,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity: 11.8
• Refining Depth: 85%

Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation, 306,000 bpd
• Vacuum Distillation, 130,200 bpd
• Delayed Coker, 18,000 bpd
• Fluidised Catalytic Cracker, 101,000 bpd
• Hydrocracker, 41,000 bpd
• Catalytic Reforming (Low Pressure), 78,800
• * Catalytic Reforming (High Pressure), 17,700
• Naphtha Desulphurisation, 69,300 bpd
• Gasoline Desulphurisation, 80,000 bpd
• Kerosene Desulphurisation, 53,250 bpd
• Diesel Desulphurisation, 46,000 bpd
• S Zorb™ Sulfur Removal Unit - 32,000 bpd

Terminal Capacity

Crude Oil: Refined Products: Crude Supply Heavy crude oil from Canadian oil sands Products Produced Clean transportation fuels

Projects

• For full details see Wood River Refinery Project
• The refinery had a major project the Coker and Refinery Expansion (CORE)
• The CORE project cost a total of about $3.6 billion and was completed in 2011
• The impact was to:
  • Add a 65,000 barrels-per-day (bbls/d) coker to enable processing of growing supplies of heavy crude oil
  • Increase total crude oil refining capacity by 50,000 bbls/d to 356,000 bbls/d
  • More than double heavy crude oil refining capacity to 240,000 bbls/d
  • Increase the clean product yield by 10 percent to 89 percent
  • Eliminate 40,000 bbls/d of low-value asphalt production

Other Information

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History

• 1917 - It began operation in as the Roxana Petroleum Company
• 2001 - Phillips acquired the refinery through purchase of Tosco
• 2003 - ConocoPhillips acquired Coker and other units from the Hartford Refinery
• 2005 - ConocoPhillips announces it is to Install Its S Zorb™ Sulfur Removal Technology
• 2006 - Refinery becomes part of Conocophillips Encana joint venture
• 2008 - Coker and Refinery Expansion (CORE) project launched
• 2011 - CORE project is completed
• 2021 - Cenovus became a partner following the merger with Husky

Links

1. Cenovus Refining
2. Expansion Project Website
3. Phillips Closes on Acquisition of Tosco; Panatier to Head Phillips 66 Company, Combined RM&T Business
4. ConocoPhillips and EnCana to Create Integrated North American Heavy Oil Business
5. EnCana and ConocoPhillips begin Wood River refinery expansion
6. ConocoPhillips Purchases Select Assets of Premcor's Hartford, Ill., Refinery; Equipment to Enhance Productivity of the Wood River Refinery
7. ConocoPhillips to Install Its S Zorb™ Sulfur Removal Technology at Wood River Refinery
8. Cenovus and Husky Combine to Create a Resilient Integrated Energy Leader