Salt Lake City (Big West) refinery
Also known as:
Big West, Flying J (previously)
Big West is a vary small, medium complexity refinery locate in North Salt Lake City, Utah in the US
It is the refining subsidiary of FJ Management
Refinery configuration
Complexity: 9.5
Major process units:
Atmospheric distillation - 33 kbpd
FCC - 13 kbpd
Alkylation - 3 kbpd - HF acid
C5/C6 Isomerization - 3 kbpd
Reformer - 9 kbpd - Semiregen
Naphtha hydrotreater - 12 kbpd
Distillate hydrotreater - 12 kbpd
C4 Isomerization - 2 kbpd
Sulfur plant - 4 t/d
Employees - 185
Refinery history
1948 - Refinery commissioned by Western States Refining at 2.5 kbpd
1985 - Acquired by Big West
1959 - Acquired by Frontier
1967 - Acquired by Husky
1984 - Refinery sold to Flying J along with Cheyenne and Cody refineries
2005 - CCR Platformer added
2010 - Flying J changed name to FJ Management when it sold its Flying J travel centers to Pilot