{"id":4946,"date":"2022-09-22T11:09:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T16:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.phillips66.com\/?p=4946"},"modified":"2024-11-19T12:55:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T18:55:43","slug":"hydrocracker-upgrade-boosts-wood-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phillips66.com\/newsroom\/hydrocracker-upgrade-boosts-wood-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydrocracker upgrade boosts Wood River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Wood River Refinery is making the most out of its recent upgrade.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Roxana, Illinois refinery today can produce a higher percentage of in-demand fuels thanks to major enhancements to its hydrocracker. The upgrade to the process unit, which included the installation of two 3-million-pound reactors, was completed earlier this year and leaves Wood River well positioned to help Phillips 66 meet present and future needs for liquid fuels in the U.S.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe addition of the two new reactors allows Wood River to better optimize low-value feedstocks, further strengthening the refinery\u2019s operations,\u201d said <strong>Ray Rigdon<\/strong>, Vice President of Wood River Refinery, which is owned by WRB Refining LP, a 50-50 joint venture between Phillips 66 and Cenovus.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rigdon said the refinery is using available hydrogen capacity to increase clean-product yield.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a refinery, the hydrocracker converts vacuum gasoil, an intermediate feedstock, into higher-value products \u2014 mainly middle distillates such as diesel, jet fuel and kerosene \u2014 through pressure and heat and the use of catalysts and hydrogen.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new reactors optimize the hydrocracker\u2019s clean-product yield by providing increased reactor volume and catalyst. The upgrade also allows the refinery to run lighter feedstocks through its fluid catalytic cracker, another key process unit, resulting in an improved yield of gasoline-range material.\u202f\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a win-win across the board,\u201d Wood River Technical Services Manager <strong>Wesley Tindall<\/strong> said.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project, a major undertaking by the refinery and the Major Projects team at Phillips 66, tallied more than 800,000 work-hours without a recordable incident.\u202f\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project was first envisioned in 2017. In 2020, the reactors embarked on a global trek before arriving at the refinery, <a href=\"https:\/\/onfirstup.com\/Phillips66\/MyRoute\/contents\/26110269\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">traveling more than 8,400 miles<\/a> over 51 days from Venice, Italy, to Wood River, which is north of St. Louis on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River. Two 900-ton strand jacks lifted the reactors into place in early 2021. The full project had a total execution phase duration of 40 months.\u202f\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am proud to see this major project complete and start up safely, on schedule and under budget,\u201d said <strong>Mike Wirkowski, <\/strong>Vice President of Major Projects at Phillips 66. \u201cIt was a joint team effort from start to finish with a dedicated refinery and project team.\u201d\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new reactors better position the Wood River Refinery to meet U.S. demand for liquid fuels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","widen_thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/phillips66.widen.net\/content\/cz8hxqlov8\/jpeg\/22-0006_81_Wood%20River%20Hydrocracker%20Upgrade%209-9%20DotCom%20thumbnail.jpeg?keep=c&crop=yes&color=ffffffff&quality=54&u=s3whhe","widen_thumbnail_width":"1817","widen_thumbnail_height":"1119","psx_hero_image_url":"https:\/\/phillips66.widen.net\/content\/74cprt5cew\/jpeg\/22-0006_81_Wood%20River%20Hydrocracker%20Upgrade%209-9%20DotCom.jpeg?keep=c&crop=yes&color=ffffffff&quality=54&u=s3whhe","psx_hero_image_width":"2048","psx_hero_image_height":"640","psx_hero_image_mobile_url":"https:\/\/phillips66.widen.net\/content\/cz8hxqlov8\/jpeg\/22-0006_81_Wood%20River%20Hydrocracker%20Upgrade%209-9%20DotCom%20thumbnail.jpeg?keep=c&crop=yes&color=ffffffff&quality=54&u=s3whhe","psx_hero_image_mobile_width":"undefined","psx_hero_image_mobile_height":"undefined","psx_byline":"Eunice Bridges"},"categories":[8,9],"class_list":["post-4946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operating-excellence","category-refining"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hydrocracker Upgrade Enhances Fuel Production | Phillips 66<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Our hydrocracker upgrade at Wood River Refinery enhances fuel production and clean-product yield. 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