El Dorado (Kansas) is a medium sized, high conversion refinery located northeast of Wichita in El Dorado, Kansas in the US.
The refinery is 100% owned and operated by HF Sinclair.
The refinery processes heavy sour crude from Western Canada and light sweet domestic crude.
Product is distributed to nearby markets in Eastern Colorado and the plains states.
Complexity: 10.8
Atmospheric distillation - 165 kbpd
Vacuum distillation - 65 kbpd
Coker - 23 kbpd - Retrofitted to Conoco technology
FCC - 44 kbpd
Reformer - 8 kbpd - Continuous
Reformer - 24 kbpd - Semiregen
Naphtha hydrotreater - 50 kbpd
Kerosene hydrotreater - 12 kbpd
Distillate hydrotreater - 54 kbpd
VGO hydrotreater - 50 kbpd
FCC gasoline hydrotreater - 27 kbpd
Alkylation - 14 kbpd - HF acid
C4 Isomerization - 2 kbpd
C5/C6 Isomerization - 15 kbpd
Hydrogen production - 56 MMscfd
Asphalt plant - 4 kpd
Pet coke - 7 kbpd
Sulfur plant - 315 t/d
Coke gasifier - 166 t/d coke
1917 - Built by Midland Oil
1922 - Acquired by Skelly Oil
1977 - Merged in Getty Oil
1983 - Coker added
1984 - Getty merged with Texaco
1997 - Texaco and Shell for Equilon JV including El Dorado
1999 - Acquired by Frontier
2003 - Coker expanded
2011 - Frontier and Holly merge to form HollyFrontier
2015 - Aromatics unit shut down
2016 - Debottleneck of distillation (6 knbpd). $5MM project.