ConocoPhillips Evaluates 30,000-Barrel Clean-Fuels Project in United Kingdom

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) (Houston, Texas) is evaluating a clean-fuels project at its Humber refinery in the United Kingdom. The company is looking to construct a 30,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) gasoline hydrotreater utilizing Axens Prime G technology and a hydrogen plant to support the proposed unit. ConocoPhillips expects to select a company in late 2009 or early 2010 to perform engineering, procurement and construction services for the project. The company anticipates construction to begin in early 2011 and take about 24 months to construct.

ConocoPhillips is the second largest refiner in the U.S. with a crude oil capacity of about 2 million BBL/d at 12 refineries.

• West Coast: 139,000-BBL/d Los Angeles refinery, 120,000-BBL/d San Francisco refinery, 96,000-BBL/d Ferndale refinery and the 58,000-BBL/d Billings refinery
• Central region: 306,000-BBL/d Wood River refinery, 187,000-BBL/d Ponca City refinery and the 146,000-BBL/d Borger refinery
• Gulf Coast: 247,000-BBL/d Alliance refinery, 247,000-BBL/d Sweeny refinery and the 239,000-BBL/d Lake Charles refinery
• East Coast: 238,000-BBL/d Bayway refinery and the 185,000-BBL/d Trainer refinery

Overseas, the company has two refineries in Germany, one in the United Kingdom, one in Ireland and one in Melaka.

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