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.
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