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.

Ferndale Refinery

The Ferndale Refinery is located on Puget Sound in Ferndale, Wash., about 20 miles south of the U.S.-Canada border, and has a crude oil capacity of 100 MBD. The refinery processes primarily light, low-sulfur crude oil. Ferndale operates a deepwater dock that is capable of accommodating tankers transporting Alaskan North Slope crude oil from Valdez, Alaska. It also receives Canadian crude oil via pipeline. The refinery produces transportation fuels, such as gasoline and diesel fuel. Other products include residual fuel oil supplying the northwest marine transportation market. Most refined products are distributed by pipeline and barge to major markets in the northwest United States.

Los Angeles Refinery

The Los Angeles Refinery is composed of two linked facilities located roughly five miles apart in Carson and Wilmington, Calif., about 15 miles southeast of Los Angeles International Airport. Carson serves as the front end of the refinery by processing crude oil, and Wilmington serves as the back end by upgrading the products.

The refinery has a crude oil processing capacity of 139 MBD and processes mainly heavy, high-sulfur crude oil. It receives domestic crude oil via pipeline from California and both foreign and domestic crude oil by tanker through a third-party terminal in the Port of Long Beach. The refinery produces a high percentage of transportation fuels, such as gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel.

Other products include fuel-grade petroleum coke. The refinery produces California Air Resources Board (CARB) gasoline using ethanol to meet government-mandated oxygenate requirements. Refined products are distributed to customers in California, Nevada and Arizona by pipeline and truck.

San Francisco Refinery

The San Francisco Refinery is comprised of two facilities linked by a 200-mile pipeline. The Santa Maria facility is located in Arroyo Grande, Calif., while the Rodeo facility is in the San Francisco Bay Area. The combined facilities have a total crude oil processing capacity of 120 MBD.

The refinery processes mainly heavy, high-sulfur crude oil. It receives crude oil from California and foreign sources by tanker. Semi-refined products from the Santa Maria facility are sent by pipeline to the Rodeo facility for upgrading into finished petroleum products. A high proportion of the refinery’s production is transportation fuel, such as gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel. The refinery produces CARB gasoline using ethanol to meet government-mandated oxygenate requirements. The majority of refined products are distributed by pipeline, railcar, truck and barge to customers in California.

In 2009, ConocoPhillips completed construction of a 20 MBD hydrocracking complex, which increases the clean product yield of this facility. This project also provides increased crude capacity and greater flexibility to process advantaged crude oil.