The McPherson refinery is a small, high conversion refinery located in McPherson, Kansas in the US.
The refinery is 100% owned and operated by the farmers' cooperative CHS (Cenex Harvest States).
Complexity: 13.0
Atmospheric distillation - 115 kbpd
Vacuum distillation - 50 kbpd
Coker - 31 kbpd
FCC - 25 kbpd
Hydrocracker - 43 kbpd
Reformer - 27 kbpd - Continuous
Naphtha hydrotreater - 42 kbpd
Distillate hydrotreater - 47 kbpd
Alkylation - 10 kbpd - HF acid
C4 Isomerization - 4 kbpd
C5/C6 Isomerization - 12 kbpd
Hydrogen production - 42 MMscfd
Pet coke - 7 kbpd
Sulfur plant - 287 t/d
Employees - 700
1933 - Built by Globe oil
1943 - Acquired by National Coop Refining
2006 - Hydrocracker and hydrogen plant added
2015 - CHS buys out minority shareholders to become sole owner
2017 - Project to replace old coker (22 kbpd) with new coker (32 kbpd) and expand distillation (13 kbpd) to provide more coker feed. Total project cost of $882MM.