ConocoPhillips Commences Construction of $100 Million Hydrotreater Conversion in Illinois

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP)(Houston, Texas) commenced construction February 2006 on a $100 million gasoline hydrotreater unit conversion at its Roxana, Illinois refinery. The project involves converting a kerosene hydrotreater to a 32,000-barrel per day gasoline hydrotreater by adding a new reactor utilizing ConocoPhillips’ proprietary S Zorb technology. The EPA Tier 2 regulations mandate that refiners produce low sulfur gasoline of 30 parts per million (ppm). The company has awarded Fluor Corporation (Sugar Land, Texas) engineering and procurement for the project, in addition to its overall clean fuels program. Cherne Contracting Corporation (Minneapolis, Minnesota) is self-performing construction services. Construction on the project is expected to be complete by early 2007.

ConocoPhillips has twelve refineries located in the United States with a total crude capacity of 2.2 million barrels per day and six refineries located internationally in five countries, with a total capacity of 428,000 barrels per day. The company has two refineries located on the East Coast (Bayway and Trainer), Gulf Coast (Alliance, Lake Charles, and Sweeny), Central Region (Borger, Ponca City, and Wood River), and West Coast (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Ferndale, and Billings). The international refineries are the Humber in the United Kingdom, Whitegate in Ireland, MiRO in Germany, two Czech refineries in Kralupy and Litvinov, and the Melaka refinery, which is located in Malaysia. The company has approximately 35,600 employees worldwide and assets of $107 billion.

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