Wood River Refinery

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Summary Information

• Ownership: Conoco / Cenovus
• Website:
  • http://www.phillips66.com/
  • http://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

Ongoing Projects

• For full details see Wood River Refinery Project
• The refinery has a major project the Coker and Refinery Expansion (CORE)
• The CORE project is estimated to cost a total of about US$1.8 billion net to EnCana ($3.6 billion gross) and is expected to be completed over the next three years.
• It will:
  • 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

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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
• 2008 - Coker and Refinery Expansion (CORE) project launched
• 2011 - CORE project is completed

Relevant 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. EnCana and ConocoPhillips begin Wood River refinery expansion
5. ConocoPhillips Purchases Select Assets of Premcor's Hartford, Ill., Refinery; Equipment to Enhance Productivity of the Wood River Refinery
6. ConocoPhillips to Install Its S Zorb™ Sulfur Removal Technology at Wood River Refinery

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