Wood River is a very large, high conversion refinery located 15 miles northeast of St Louis, in Roxana, Illinois in the US.
The refinery is owned by a 50/50 joint venture between Phillips 66 and Cenovus called WRB, which also owns the Borger refinery. Phillips 66 is the operator. P66 will assume full ownerhship of the refinery by EOY 2025.
Complexity: 9.8
Atmospheric distillation - 368 kbpd
Vacuum distillation - 197 kbpd
Coker - 84 kbpd
RCC - 101 kbpd - Revamp using Kellogg technology
Hydrocracker - 58 kbpd - Shell technology
Reformer - 80 kbpd - Continuous
Naphtha hydrotreater - 84 kbpd
Kerosene hydrotreater - 53 kbpd
Distillate hydrotreater - 60 kbpd
FCC gasoline hydrotreater - 74 kbpd
Alkylation - 22 kbpd - Sulfuric acid
Aromatics extraction - 5 kbpd
Hydrogen production - 190 MMscfd
Asphalt plant - 28 kpd
Pet coke - 30 kbpd
Sulfur plant - 1008 t/d
Land - 2200 Acres
Employees - 1100 (including contractors)
1917 - Built by Shell (called Roxana Petroleum)
1994 - Visbreaker shut down (17 kbpd)
1996 - RCC revamp to Kellogg technology
1998 - Equilon JV formed with Texaco
2000 - Acquired by Tosco
2001 - Acquired by Phillips
2002 - Phillips merged with Conoco to form ConocoPhillips
2003 - Installs first coker
2007 - Wood River placed into a 50/50 JV between ConocoPhillips and Encana
2009 - Encana spun off its integrated oil business, including refining, as Cenovus
2011 - Installed a second coker and expanded naphtha hydrotreater and hydrogen plant, asphalt plant capacity reduced
2012 - ConocoPhillips broke apart businesses and Phillips 66 retained refinery assets
2012 - SR reformer shut down
2025 - P66 announced that it is acquiring Cenovus's 50% stake in WRB refining (Wood River and Borger refineries in the US) for $1.4B.