Transforming Daily Life™Refining and Chemicals
Koch companies have been in the petroleum business since 1940, growing our refining capacity more than 80-fold. Today these companies engage in petroleum refining, chemicals and base oil production, crude oil supply, and wholesale marketing of fuels, base oils, petrochemicals, asphalt and other products. The Flint Hills Resources polymers plant in Peru, Ill., is one of 105 Koch company sites that have earned OSHA's Voluntary Protection Programs STAR status. Flint Hills Resources, LP and its subsidiaries operate refineries in Alaska (North Pole), Minnesota (Rosemount) and Texas (Corpus Christi), with a combined crude oil processing capacity of more than 800,000 barrels per day. The company’s petrochemical business includes production facilities in Illinois, Michigan and Texas. These plants produce aromatics, olefins, polymers and intermediate chemicals. Flint Hills Resources also has a long-term product agreement with a plant in Geel, Belgium. In addition, the company produces and markets asphalt in the Midwest and owns an interest in a base oil facility in Louisiana. The base oils are marketed to a variety of industries, including makers of motor oil and commercial lubricants. Read about Flint Hills Resources' vision here. Flint Hills Resources Koch Pipeline Company, L.P. and its affiliates own or operate about 4,000 miles of pipelines that transport crude oil, refined petroleum products, natural gas liquids and chemicals. Koch Alaska Pipeline Company, LLC owns an approximate 3 percent interest in the Trans Alaska Pipeline System. Another Koch company has a 28 percent interest in Colonial Pipeline Company, owner and operator of the world’s largest-volume refined products pipeline.
Corpus Christi, Texas