San Francisco Refinery

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Summary Information

Brief Description

  • The San Francisco Refinery is comprised of two facilities linked by a 200-mile pipeline. The Santa Maria facility is located in Arroyo Grande, Calif., while the Rodeo facility is in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Refining Units

  • Atmospheric Distillation
  • Vacuum Distillation - 93,200
  • Delayed Coker - 50,600
  • Hydrocraceker 42,000
  • Catalytic Reformer - 32,000

Terminal Capacity

  • Crude Oil:
  • Refined Products:

Crude Supply

  • The refinery processes a mixture of heavy, high-sulfur and light sweet crude oils. It receives California crude oil by pipeline and both domestic and foreign crude oils by tanker.

Products Produced

  • A large proportion of the refinery's production is transportation fuel, such as gasoline and diesel fuels
  • Semi-refined products from Santa Maria are sent by pipeline to Rodeo for upgrading into finished petroleum products
  • The majority of refined products are distributed by pipeline, railcar and barge to customers in California

Projects

Other Information

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History

  • 1896 - Rodeo facility was built
  • 1955 - Santa Maria was built
  • 1997 - Tosco acquires the refinery from Unocal
  • 2001 - Phillips acquired the refinery through purchase of Tosco
  • 2009 - Mustang Awarded Control System Modernization Contract
  • 2020 - Phillips66 announces that it will close the Santa Maria refining facility and convert Rodeo into a biofuel unit

Links

  1. ConocoPhillips Refining
  2. Refinery webpage
  3. Mustang Awarded Control System Modernization Contract at ConocoPhillips San Francisco Refinery
  4. Unocal signs letter of intent to sell downstream assets to Tosco
  5. Unocal completes sale of West Coast downstream assets
  6. Phillips Closes on Acquisition of Tosco; Panatier to Head Phillips 66 Company, Combined RM&T Business
  7. Phillips 66 Plans to Transform San Francisco Refinery into World’s Largest Renewable Fuels Plant