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Baton Rouge Refinery

Baton Rouge Refinery

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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]

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Standard Oil first erected the refinery in 1909. Today's facility is part of a complex made of nine individual plants across the region. The main plant is located on the east bank of the Mississippi River. There are about 6,300 workers spread across these sites, including 4,000 direct employees (the rest are contractors).

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]

The refinery seen from the Capitol tower

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  1. [1]
    List of oil refineries#World.27s largest refineries
  2. [2]
    "2018 Baton Rouge Refinery fact sheet" (PDF). 2018. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
  3. [3]
    "The Fluid Bed Reactor" (PDF). American Chemical Society. November 3, 1998. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
  4. [4]
    Perilloux, Gary (February 4, 2013). "Genesis Energy To Invest $125 Million In Baton Rouge Area Infrastructure Project". Louisiana Economic Development. Retrieved September 26, 2020.


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