Billings (Par) refinery

The ExxonMobil Billings refinery is a small but complex refinery in Billings, Montana, in the US.

The refinery is 100% owned and operated by Par pacific.  

The refinery processes both local domestic crude and heavy crude from Western Canada.

Refinery configuration

Complexity: 10.4

Major process units:

Atmospheric distillation - 63 kbpd

Vacuum distillation - 32 kbpd

Coker - 10 kbpd - Fluid coker, Exxon technology. Coke and flue gas burned in adjacent cogen plant.

FCC - 24 kbpd

Hydrocracker - 6 kbpd - UOP Unicracking technology

Reformer - 13 kbpd - Semiregen

Naphtha hydrotreater - 14 kbpd

Kerosene hydrotreater - 8 kbpd

Distillate hydrotreater - 11 kbpd

VGO hydrotreater - 8 kbpd

FCC gasoline hydrotreater - 21 kbpd

Alkylation - 5 kbpd - HF acid

Hydrogen production - 23 MMscfd

Asphalt plant - 15 kbpd

Pet coke - 4 kbpd

Land - 720 acres

Location

700 ExxonMobil Rd, Billings, MT 59101 USA

Billings refinery website

Refinery history

1949 - Refinery built by Carter Oil Company, a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey

1954 - Fluid coker added

1972 - Name changed to Exxon

1999 - Merged with Mobil to form ExxonMobil

2023 - Par Pacific acquired the refinery from ExxonMobil for $310 Million plus value of inventory