ConocoPhillips has refining and marketing operations in all five U.S. Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts (PADD). Each PADD contains assets integrated by location, transportation, markets and commercial activities.
Alliance Refinery
The Alliance Refinery, located on the Mississippi River in Belle Chasse, La., 25 miles south of New Orleans, has a crude oil capacity of 247 MBD and processes mainly light, low-sulfur crude oil. Alliance receives domestic crude oil from the Gulf of Mexico via pipeline and foreign crude oil from West Africa via pipeline connected to the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port. The refinery produces a high percentage of transportation fuels, such as gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel. Other products include petrochemical feedstocks, home heating oil and anode petroleum coke.
The majority of the refined products are distributed to customers in the southeastern and eastern United States through major common-carrier pipeline systems and by barge.
Borger Refinery
The Borger Refinery is located in Borger, Texas, in the Texas Panhandle about 50 miles north of Amarillo and includes a natural gas liquids fractionation facility. The refinery’s gross crude oil processing capacity is 146 MBD, and the natural gas liquids fractionation capacity is 45 MBD. Additionally, the refinery operates a 25 MBD coker, commissioned in 2007. As a result of the business venture with Cenovus (formerly Encana), ConocoPhillips has a 50 percent interest in the refinery.
The refinery processes primarily medium sour crude oil and natural gas liquids delivered through pipelines from West Texas, the Texas Panhandle, Wyoming and Canada. The Borger Refinery also can receive foreign crude oil via company-owned and common-carrier pipeline systems. It produces a high percentage of transportation fuels, such as gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel, as well as natural gas liquids and solvents. Pipelines move refined products to West Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and the Mid-Continent Region.
Lake Charles Refinery
The Lake Charles Refinery, located in Westlake, La., has a crude oil processing capacity of 239 MBD and processes mainly heavy, high-sulfur crude oil, as well as low-sulfur and acidic crude oil. The refinery receives domestic and foreign crude oil.
The Lake Charles Refinery produces a high percentage of transportation fuels, such as gasoline and jet fuel, along with home heating oil. The majority of its refined products are distributed by truck, railcar, barge or major common-carrier pipelines in the southeastern and eastern United States. In addition, refined products can be sold into export markets through the refinery’s marine terminal. The refinery facilities include a specialty coker and calciner, which produce graphite petroleum coke for the steel industry. The refinery also supplies feedstocks to Excel Paralubes, a joint venture that produces base oils for lubricants.
Sweeny Refinery
The Sweeny Refinery, located in Old Ocean, Texas, 65 miles southwest of Houston, has a crude oil processing capacity of 247 MBD. It processes mainly heavy, high-sulfur crude oil but also processes light, low-sulfur crude oil. The refinery receives domestic and foreign crude oil. The Sweeny Refinery primarily receives crude oil through wholly and jointly owned terminals on the Gulf Coast, including a deepwater terminal at Freeport, Texas. It produces a high percentage of transportation fuels, such as gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel. Other products include petrochemical feedstocks, home heating oil and petroleum (fuel) coke. The refinery operates nearby terminals and storage facilities in Freeport, Jones Creek and on the San Bernard River, along with pipelines that connect these facilities to the refinery. Refined products are distributed throughout the Midwest and southeastern United States by pipeline, barge and railcar.
Merey Sweeny, L.P. (MSLP) is a limited partnership that owns a 70,000-barrel-per-day delayed coker and related facilities at the Sweeny Refinery that produce fuel-grade petroleum coke. Prior to Aug. 28, 2009, MSLP was owned 50/50 by ConocoPhillips and Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA), Venezuela’s national oil company. Under the agreements that govern the relationships between the partners, certain defaults by PDVSA with respect to supply of crude oil to the Sweeny Refinery gave ConocoPhillips the right to acquire PDVSA’s 50 percent ownership interest in MSLP. On Aug. 28, 2009, ConocoPhillips exercised that right. PDVSA recently initiated arbitration in the International Chamber of Commerce challenging ConocoPhillips’ actions.
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