Smog and haze, by more than 4,000 tons per year.” The new Gas Oil Hydrotreater and Coker with a reconfigured distillation unit.[1] The new Pipestill 12 unit which was upgraded with a coker to handle the heavier Western Canadian Select crude oil[3] was built to increase energy security in the Midwest by replacing lighter crude oil with heavier crudes.
After billions in investment and years of construction that brought thousands of workers to the BP Whiting Refinery, the energy company has marked the final major milestone of its $4.2 billion upgrade to its Whiting facility.
BP has started up its new state-of-the-art coker, a processing unit that converts residual crude oil into gas oils that are used in gasoline, and into petroleum coke that is used overseas in energy production. The 102,000-barrel-per-day coker was the last of the major new units installed at the BP Whiting Refinery during the massive modernization project aimed at letting it process more of the heavier Canadian crude oil.
