Baton Rouge refinery

The Baton Rouge refinery is a very large high-conversion refinery located on the Mississippi River in the northern part of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the US.

The refinery is 100% owned and operated by ExxonMobil.

The refinery can receive both domestic and imported crude by pipelines.

Products are distributed by water (on the Mississippi) and onto the Colonial and Plantation pipelines.

Anode coke is calcined by Calciners of Chalmette.

Refinery configuration

Baton Rouge is a very large, high complexity refinery, with a coker, FCC, hydrocracker and base oil plant.  This allows it to run medium and heavy sour crude and still achieve full conversion to light products.

Complexity: 11.6

Major process units:

Atmospheric distillation - 542 kbpd - 4 CDUs: PSLA 10 is ~240 kbpd, , PSLA 8 with ~90 kbpd, PSLA 7 with ~90 kbpd, PSLA 9 with ~110 kbpd

Vacuum distillation - 254 kbpd

Coker - 124 kbpd - 3 delayed coking units, producing anode and fuel coke, all retrofitted to Conoco-Bechtel coker technology: 

DC-A - East Coker ~50 kbpd -  Originally Foster Wheeler, 4 drum

DC-B - Far East East Coker ~45 kbpd - 4 drum

DC-C - West Coker ~29 kbpd -  2 drum

FCC - 245 kbpd - Two units of similar size: PCLA 2 and PCLA3

Hydrocracker - 29 kbpd - UOP Unicracking technology

Reformer - 80 kbpd - Continuous

Naphtha hydrotreater - 79 kbpd - Two units: RHLA 1 and RHLA 2

Distillate hydrotreater - 211 kbpd - Two units: ULSD (hydrofining) and conventional

FCC gasoline hydrotreater - 259 kbpd - 

Alkylation - 41 kbpd - Sulfuric acid - Acid regen provided by Ecovyst Baton Rouge plant nearby

Base oil plant - 17 kbpd

Asphalt plant - 40 kbpd

Pet coke - 32 kbpd

Sulfur plant - 944 t/d

Land - 2,100 acres

Employees - 1,270 and 2,180 contractors

Location

4045 Scenic Hwy, Baton Rouge, LA 70805

Baton Rouge refinery website

Refinery history

1909 - Built by Standard Oil Company of Louisiana

1942 - Built FCC PCLA 1 (first of its kind). Built by MW Kellogg 

1943 - Second FCC (PCLA 3) commissioned

1944 - Standard of Louisiana merged into Standard Oil of New Jersey

1948 - Changed name to Esso

1959 - Merged into Humble Oil

1963 - East coker addded

1963 - PCLA 1 decommissioned

1972 - Changed name to Exxon

1999 - Merged with Mobil to form ExxonMobil

2010 - Added ULSD hydrotreater

2019 - Crude unit expanded (17 kbpd) to process more light domestic crude