The Baton Rouge refinery is a very large high-conversion refinery located on the Mississippi River in the northern part of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the US.
The refinery is 100% owned and operated by ExxonMobil.
The refinery can receive both domestic and imported crude by pipelines.
Products are distributed by water (on the Mississippi) and onto the Colonial and Plantation pipelines.
Anode coke is calcined by Calciners of Chalmette.
Baton Rouge is a very large, high complexity refinery, with a coker, FCC, hydrocracker and base oil plant. This allows it to run medium and heavy sour crude and still achieve full conversion to light products.
Complexity: 11.6
Atmospheric distillation - 542 kbpd - 4 CDUs: PSLA 10 is ~240 kbpd, , PSLA 8 with ~90 kbpd, PSLA 7 with ~90 kbpd, PSLA 9 with ~110 kbpd
Vacuum distillation - 254 kbpd
Coker - 124 kbpd - 3 delayed coking units, producing anode and fuel coke, all retrofitted to Conoco-Bechtel coker technology:
DC-A - East Coker ~50 kbpd - Originally Foster Wheeler, 4 drum
DC-B - Far East East Coker ~45 kbpd - 4 drum
DC-C - West Coker ~29 kbpd - 2 drum
FCC - 245 kbpd - Two units of similar size: PCLA 2 and PCLA3
Hydrocracker - 29 kbpd - UOP Unicracking technology
Reformer - 80 kbpd - Continuous
Naphtha hydrotreater - 79 kbpd - Two units: RHLA 1 and RHLA 2
Distillate hydrotreater - 211 kbpd - Two units: ULSD (hydrofining) and conventional
FCC gasoline hydrotreater - 259 kbpd -
Alkylation - 41 kbpd - Sulfuric acid - Acid regen provided by Ecovyst Baton Rouge plant nearby
Base oil plant - 17 kbpd
Asphalt plant - 40 kbpd
Pet coke - 32 kbpd
Sulfur plant - 944 t/d
Land - 2,100 acres
Employees - 1,270 and 2,180 contractors
1909 - Built by Standard Oil Company of Louisiana
1942 - Built FCC PCLA 1 (first of its kind). Built by MW Kellogg
1943 - Second FCC (PCLA 3) commissioned
1944 - Standard of Louisiana merged into Standard Oil of New Jersey
1948 - Changed name to Esso
1959 - Merged into Humble Oil
1963 - East coker addded
1963 - PCLA 1 decommissioned
1972 - Changed name to Exxon
1999 - Merged with Mobil to form ExxonMobil
2010 - Added ULSD hydrotreater
2019 - Crude unit expanded (17 kbpd) to process more light domestic crude