Saint Paul Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Flint Hills Resources
- Website: http://www.fhr.com/
- Location: Pine Bend, Saint Paul, Minnesota
- Capacity: 16.0 million tons/annum & 320,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- A large highly complex refinery that processes very heavy crudes
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Vacuum Distillation - 196,000
- Delayed Coker - 67,000
- FCC - 86,500
- Hydrocracker - 44,000
- Catalytic Reforming - 37,500 + 13,800
- Desulphurisation
- Naphtha - 52,500
- Gasoline - 52,500
- Kerosene - 41,500
- Diesel - 60,000
- Other - 7,000
- Gasoil - 107,000
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- The refinery is among the largest processors of heavy crude in the United States
- Crude is supplied via the Minnesota Oil Pipeline
Products Produced
- gasoline, diesel, propane and butane, jet fuel, asphalt, heating fuels, and sulfur
Ongoing Projects
- FHR has launched a project involve replacing three less-efficient heaters with two new state-of-the-art heaters, upgrading an existing process heater, and making improvements to the refinery’s cooling towers.
Other Information
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History
- 1955 - Refinery commissioned
- 1969 - Koch Industries purchased controlling interest of the refinery
- 2000 - Koch Industries settles a lawsuit brought by the EPA
- 2006 - The refinery completed a $350 million project to produce ultra low-sulfur diesel fuels and convert diesel fuel to gasoline - see Pine Bend Saint Paul Refinery Clean Fuels Project
- 2006 - Coker modernisation project started
- 2011 - The Coker Unit Modernization Project was completed
- 2012 - Efficiency project launched
- 2014 - Gasoline desulphurisation and CHP investment launched
Relevant Links
- Refinery Webpage
- Foster Wheeler Awarded Coker Project for Flint Hills Resources’ Pine Bend Refinery in Minnesota
- Flint Hills Resources Hydrogen Plant Pine Bend, MN
- Flint Hills Coker Unit Modernization Project
- U.S. ANNOUNCES CLEAN AIR SETTLEMENT WITH KOCH PETROLEUM GROUP
- Flint Hills Resources to Make Series of Operational Improvements at Pine Bend Refinery
- Flint Hills Resources to Implement More Stringent Energy Efficiency and Emission Standards as Part of Major Refinery Improvement
- Flint Hills plans $300M in additional upgrades at Rosemount refinery
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