Mile 63.2 - 63.2 - 62 RBD Conoco Phillips 66 Alliance Refinery

63.2 - 62 RBD Conoco Phillips 66 Alliance Refinery

Paddlers descending Chemical Corridor often end up in the weirdest places imaginable for rest places, picnic spots and campsites. In Dec 2009 the Old Man River Expedition got hit by high winds in this stretch of the river towards the end of the day, and was forced to take shelter within a small rocky harbor below the towering crackers of this megaplix refinery. The camp was safe and secure, but certainly one of the strangest places ever to find shelter. Our foreground was the cold river bouncing along past our landing. To the rear, however, our camp ended at a high chain link fence w/concertina wire, and billowing cracker smokestacks sending amazing swirls of steam rotating and convoluting high into the sky.

The Alliance oil refinery was built in 1971 and is owned by Phillips 66. The single-train refinery’s facilities include fluid catalytic cracking, alkylation, coking, and hydrodesulfurization units, a naphtha reformer and aromatics units that enable it to produce a high percentage of gasoline, diesel and aviation fuels. Other products include petrochemical feedstocks, home heating oil and anode-grade petroleum coke. It has a 275,000 barrel per day capacity and can produce 125,000 barrels of gasoline per day. The majority of its refined products are distributed to customers in the eastern United States through major common-carrier pipeline systems and by barge.

Toxic Releases (TRI) for 2013 in pounds: Phillips 66 Alliance Refinery: Air: 494,321; and Water: 103,897.