Lake Charles (P66) refinery

Also known as: 

Conoco Westlake

The Phillips 66's Lake Charles refinery is a large, high conversion refinery located on the Calcasieu River in Westlake, Louisiana in the US.

It is 100% owned and operated by Phillips 66.

The refinery primarily processes heavy sour crude oil.

The refinery is adjacent to the Excel Paralubes lubricants plant, owned by Phillips 66 and Flints Hills.  VGO from the refinery feeds the lubricants plants, which is also operated by Phillips 66.

Refinery configuration

Complexity: 10.1

Major process units:

Atmospheric distillation - 273 kbpd

Vacuum distillation - 132 kbpd

Coker - 65 kbpd - Conoco technology. Produces graphite, anode coke, and fuel coke.  Two units:

Train A (~50 kbpd) - 4 drums

Train B (~ 20 kbpd) - 4 drums

Visbreaker - 12 kbpd

FCC - 52 kbpd

Reformer - 48 kbpd - Continuous

Naphtha hydrotreater - 50 kbpd

Kerosene hydrotreater - 28 kbpd

Distillate hydrotreater - 62 kbpd

VGO hydrotreater - 50 kbpd

Resid hydrotreater - 14 kbpd

FCC gasoline hydrotreater - 64 kbpd

Alkylation - 9 kbpd - Sulfuric acid

C5/C6 Isomerization - 25 kbpd

Asphalt plant - 7 kbpd

Pet coke - 23 kbpd

Calciner - 822 kt/d

Sulfur plant - 440 t/d

Land -  690 Acres

Lubricants plant (Excel Paralubes)

Lubes hydrocracker - 32 kbpd - UOP Unicracking process

Isodewaxing - 20 kbpd

Sulfur plant - 185 t/d


Location

2200 Old Spanish Trail, Westlake, LA 70669 USA

Lake Charles refinery website 

Refinery history

1941 - Built by Conoco

1957 - First coker added with 2 drums

1981 - Dupont acquires Conoco

1983 - Coker expanded to 4 drums

1986 - Calciner added (833 kt/d)

1995 - Pennzoil and Conoco form JV to produce lubes at Westlake (Lake Charles)

1997 - Lubricants plant added, $500MM.  Additional $250MM spend expanding the refinery's atmospheric distillation (40 kbpd), Vacuum (60 kbpd) and reforming (34 kbpd - platformer). 

1998 - Dupont IPOs Conoco

2002 - Conoco and Phillips merge

2002 - Thermal cracker shut down (11 kbpd)

2005 - FCC gasoline hydrotreater added

2006 - Hydrocracker and baseoil plant transfered to Excel Paralubes

2012 - ConocoPhillips separates businesses and Phillips 66 retains refineries

2015 - Asphalt plant started

2019 - C5 isomerization unit (25 kbpd) added. $200MM project.