CHS to add coker at Laurel, Mont., refinery

July 20, 2005
CHS Inc., St. Paul, Minn., plans to invest $325 million to install a coker and other process modifications at its 55,000 b/d Laurel, Mont., refinery. The coker will increase gasoline and diesel yields.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, July 20 -- CHS Inc., St. Paul, Minn., plans to invest $325 million to install a coker and other process modifications at its 55,000 b/d Laurel, Mont., refinery. The coker will increase gasoline and diesel yields.

Permit applications are under way, and construction is expected to begin in early 2006 and be complete by Aug. 31, 2008.

CHS currently is completing an $87 million project at the refinery that will allow it to meet 2006 federal requirements for ultralow sulfur levels in diesel fuel. The refinery meets gasoline sulfur level requirements.