 ConocoPhillips divides its North American refining and marketing activities into four regions. Each region contains assets that are integrated by location, transportation, markets and commercial activities. The Gulf Coast region includes Alliance refinery in Belle Chasse, La.; Borger refinery in Borger, Texas; Lake Charles refinery in Westlake, La.; and Sweeny refinery in Old Ocean, Texas.
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 the North Sea and 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 feed¬stocks, 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 fraction¬ation capacity is 45 MBD. As a result of the business venture with EnCana, in 2008 ConocoPhillips has a 65 percent interest in the refinery but will decrease to 50 percent for all years thereafter.
The refinery processes mainly medium, high-sulfur crude oil. It receives crude oil and natural gas liquids feedstocks through ConocoPhillips pipelines from West Texas, the Texas Panhandle and Wyoming. The Borger refinery also can receive foreign crude oil via company-owned pipeline systems. It produces a high percentage of transportation fuels, such as gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel, along with a variety of natural gas liquids and solvents. Pipelines move refined products from the refinery to West Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and the Mid-Continent region.
In the second quarter of 2007, construction was completed on a new 25 MBD coker, thereby adding significant upgrading capability, improving utilization and increasing capacity to process heavy sour crude oil.
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 majority of its foreign crude oil is heavy Venezuelan and Mexican crude oil deliv¬ered via tanker.
The Lake Charles refinery produces a high percentage of trans¬portation fuels, such as gasoline, off-road diesel fuel 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 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. Refined products are distributed throughout the Midwest and southeastern United States by pipeline, barge and railcar.
ConocoPhillips has a 50 percent interest in Merey Sweeny, L.P., a limited partnership that owns a 70 MBD delayed coker and related facilities at the Sweeny refinery. Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA), which owns the remaining 50 percent interest, supplies the refinery with Venezuelan crude oil. ConocoPhillips is the operating partner.
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