Also known as:
Pine Bend is a very large, high conversion refinery located outside of Minneapolis in Rosemount, Minnesota in the US.
The refinery is 100% owned and operated by Flint Hills (a subsidiary of Koch Industries).
The refinery processes heavy sour crude from Western Canada that it receives by pipeline.
Complexity: 11.4
Atmospheric distillation - 345 kbpd
Vacuum distillation - 234 kbpd
Coker - 75 kbpd - Kellogg technology
FCC - 94 kbpd
Hydrocracker - 67 kbpd
Reformer - 37 kbpd - Continuous
Reformer - 14 kbpd - Semiregen
Naphtha hydrotreater - 51 kbpd
Kerosene hydrotreater - 44 kbpd
Distillate hydrotreater - 71 kbpd
VGO hydrotreater - 115 kbpd
FCC gasoline hydrotreater - 51 kbpd
Alkylation - 13 kbpd - Sulfuric acid
C5/C6 Isomerization - 18 kbpd
Hydrogen production - 189 MMscfd
Asphalt plant - 45 kpd
Pet coke - 28 kbpd
Sulfur plant - 1229 t/d
1955 - Built by Great Northern Oil Company
1969 - Refinery acquired by Koch Industries
2002 - Refining business renamed Flint Hills
2006 - Hydrocracker added
2007 - Naphtha hydrotreater, C4 isomerization and C5 isomerization shut down and FCC gasoline hydrotreater added
2012 - C5 isomerization added
2020 - Coker heater replacement (no change in capacity). $750MM project.