Humber refinery
Humber is a large, complex refinery in the Northern Lincolnshire, in the UK.
It is owned and operated by Phillips 66.
The refinery primarily processes light sweet crude from the North Sea.
The refinery primarily produces transport fuels (gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel) but also has coking and calcining that allow it to make anode grade coke. Products are go to the UK domestic market (~70%) and the rest to the export market
Refinery configuration
Complexity: 13.3
Major process units:
Atmospheric distillation - 221 kbpd
Vacuum distillation - 157 kbpd
Coker - 65 kbpd - two units
Visbreaker - 55 kbpd
FCC - 51 kbpd
Alkylation - 12 kbpd
C5/C6 Isomerization - 13 kbpd
Reformer - 52 kbpd - 2 Semiregen units
Naphtha hydrotreater - 70 kbpd
FCC gasoline hydrotreater - 27 kbpd
Distillate hydrotreater - 177 kbpd - 2 units, one for straight run and one for cracked distillate
VGO hydrotreater - 48 kbpd
Calciner - two units
Employees - 1100 (including contractors)
Land - 480 acres
Refinery history
1968 - Refinery commissioned by Continental oil at 80 kbpd
2021 - Conoco Phillips splits with the new Phillips 66 taking all of the refineries, including Humber