Wood River Refinery Project

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Summary Information

• Ownership: Conoco / Cenovus
• Website:
  • http://wh.conocophillips.com/ -
  • http://cenovus.net/
  • List of Conoco Phillips Refineries
• Wiki Page: Wood River Refinery
• Location: Roxana, Illinois, USA
• Capacity:
  • Current: 15.3 million tons/annum & 306,000 bbl/day
  • Future: +2.5 million tons/annum & 356,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Project Stage: Completed
• Expected Completion: 2011
• Budget: $3.6 billion

The Project

• Project Type: Upgrading and Expansion Project
• Project Summary: * 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
• Main Contractors:
  • Fluor: Front-end engineering and design
  • Fluor: Contract for the construction and construction management of process, utility and offsites

Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation
• Coker - 65,000 bpd
• Fluidised Catalytic Cracking Unit - Restarting Idled Unit
• hydrogen plant
• Conversion of Catalytic Feed Hydrotreater to an Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel Hydrotreater
• sulfur processing
• amine treating and sour water stripping

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

Crude Supply

• Once the project is completed, the refinery will More than double heavy crude oil refining capacity to 240,000 bpd

Products Produced

• The project will expand capacity for production of clean transportation fuels, and eliminate asphalt

History

• 2006 - Permit awarded by EPA
• 2008 - Construction of the project launched
• 2011 - Project completed

Other Information

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Relevant Links

• Expansion Project Website
• EnCana and ConocoPhillips begin Wood River refinery expansion
• Fluor Awarded Construction Contract for Wood River Coker Refinery Expansion
• Project Page, Downstream Today
• EPA Permit

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