By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, May 24 -- Tesoro Corp., San Antonio, plans to add a 15,000 b/d coking unit at its 108,000 b/d refinery in Anacortes, Wash., said Chuck Flagg, senior vice-president of planning and optimization. The $175 million coker is expected to be operational by April 2007.
Addition of the unit will enable the refinery to produce feedstocks at the plant to supply its gasoline producing fluid catalytic cracking unit, he said. The company currently buys its feedstock.
Tesoro also plans to add a 10,000 b/d diesel desulfurization unit at its 72,000 b/d Kenai, Alas., refinery by April 2007 and a vacuum unit by spring 2006 to reduce by 2,000 b/d the amount of residuals produced, Flagg said.
