Alon USA Selects Project Manager for $200 Million Expansion in California

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)-- Alon USA Energy Incorporated (NYSE: ALJ) (Dallas, Texas) has selected the International Alliance Group to expand its refinery in Paramount, California. The primary unit involved in the expansion is the construction of a 25,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) high-pressure hydrocracker unit. The project will also include revamping a 10,000 BBL/d naphtha hydrotreater to 15,000 BBL/d by adding a new reactor. The expansion will help boost the refinery's clean fuels output. Construction is expected to begin in early 2009 and end in late 2010 or early 2011.

Alon, an independent refiner and marketer, is majority owned by Alon Israel Oil Company. Alon operates primarily in the south central, southwestern and western regions of the United States. The company has a 70,000 BBL/d refinery in Big Spring, Texas, that employs about 170 people. The company has two other refineries in California: the 54,000 BBL/d Paramount refinery and the 34,000 BBL/d Long Beach refinery, employing an estimated 300 people. In addition, Alon has several other pipeline, terminal, asphalt-topping and asphalt-terminal operations.

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