Refining

MiRO Refinery

The MineraloelRaffinerrie Oberrhein GmbH (MiRO) refinery in Karlsruhe, Germany, is a joint venture refinery with a gross crude oil processing capacity of 310 MBD, approximately 45 percent being low-cost, high-sulfur crude.

ConocoPhillips has an 18.75 percent interest in MiRO, with a capacity share of 58 MBD. The other owners of MiRO are Shell  Deutschland Oil GmbH, Esso Deutschland GmbH and Ruhr Oel GmbH (a 50/50 joint venture between BP and PDVSA). The refinery processes crude oil and other feedstocks supplied by each of the owners in proportion to their respective ownership interests, with each receiving their proportionate share of the products to market. 

Wilhelmshaven Refinery

The Wilhelmshaven refinery is located in the northern state Lower Saxony, Germany, and has a crude oil processing capacity of 260 MBD. The refinery processes low-sulfur crude oil, mostly from the North Sea. Wilhelmshaven mainly produces transportation fuels, fuel oil and intermediate feedstocks, which are primarily exported to Europe and the United States, but also are distributed to the inland market via truck and rail.

Marketing 

ConocoPhillips has marketing operations in select European countries through company-owned and dealer-owned JET® branded outlets. The company also has equity interest in a joint venture that markets products in Switzerland under the Coop® brand name.

ConocoPhillips markets aviation fuels, liquid petroleum gases, heating oils, transportation fuels, marine bunker fuels, fuel coke and bitumen to commercial customers and into the bulk or spot market. In addition, total Irish refinery production is sold to local and international oil companies and independent resellers in the inland Irish market.

As of March 31, 2010, R&M had approximately 1,227 marketing outlets in its European operations, of which approximately 883 were company-owned and 344 were dealer-owned. Through joint venture operations in Switzerland, ConocoPhillips has interests in 227 additional sites.

Find out more at Germany's JET Web site.