Baton Rouge Refinery
| Refinery details | |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | ExxonMobil |
| Commissioned | 1909 |
| Capacity | 540,000 bbl/d (86,000 m3/d) |
| No. of employees | 4000 |
ExxonMobil's Baton Rouge Refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the sixth-largest oil refinery in the United States and seventeenth-largest in the world,[1] with an input capacity of 540,000 barrels (86,000 m3) per day as of January 1, 2020.[2] The refinery is the site of the first commercial fluid catalytic cracking plant that began processing at the refinery on May 25, 1942.[3]
employees (the rest are contractors
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In 2013 Genesis Energy LP announced an investment of $125 million to improve ExxonMobil's existing assets in the Baton Rouge area. The investment includes plans to build an 18-mile (29 km), 20-inch (51 cm) diameter crude oil pipeline that connects Genesis Energy's Port Hudson terminal, to ExxonMobil's Baton Rouge refinery.[4]
See also
References
- ^ List of oil refineries#World.27s largest refineries
- ^ "2018 Baton Rouge Refinery fact sheet" (PDF). 2018. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
- ^ "The Fluid Bed Reactor" (PDF). American Chemical Society. November 3, 1998. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
- ^ Perilloux, Gary (February 4, 2013). "Genesis Energy To Invest $125 Million In Baton Rouge Area Infrastructure Project". Louisiana Economic Development. Retrieved September 26, 2020.