Whiting is a very large, high conversion refinery located just outside Chicago in Whiting, Indiana in the US.
The refinery is 100% owned and operated by BP.
The refinery primarily processes heavy sour crude from Canada.
Complexity: 13.1
Atmospheric distillation - 440 kbpd - 2 units: 285 kbpd, 155 kbpd
Vacuum distillation - 276 kbpd
Coker - 102 kbpd - Built in 2013, Foster Wheeler SYDEC process
FCC - 184 kbpd
Reformer- 67 kbpd - Semiregen
Naphtha hydrotreater - 123 kbpd
Kerosene hydrotreater - 46 kbpd
Distillate hydrotreater - 122 kbpd
VGO hydrotreater - 192 kbpd
FCC gasoline hydrotreater - 97 kbpd
Alkylation - 32 kbpd
C5/C6 Isomerization - 28 kbpd
Aromatics extraction - 17 kbpd
Asphalt plant - 30 kpd
Pet coke - 30 kbpd
Sulfur plant - 1904 t/d
Land - 1400 acres
1889 - Built by Standard Oil of Indiana
1940 - First coker added. ABB design
1984 - Coker retrofitted to Conoco design (34 kbpd)
1985 - Renamed Amoco
1998 - Merged with BP to form BP Amoco
2000 - Renamed BP
2012 - Hydrogen plant shut down
2013 - New 102 kbpd coker added, replacing older unit. Kerosene hysdrotreater and VGO hydrotreater expanded.