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Baton Rouge area - Our facilities
Baton Rouge Refinery (BRRF)
History
In April 1909, Standard Oil Company of Louisiana was chartered, and the company began construction on a cotton field on the bluffs of the Mississippi River. It initially employed 700 residents of Baton Rouge, a city of 15,000 at that time, and processed 1,800 barrels of oil daily.
BRRF today
Today ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Refinery is the second largest refinery in the United States. Occupying 2,100 acres, the Refinery processes over 500,000 barrels of crude oil daily. More than 2,200 employees and contractors work here.
End products and their uses
The Refinery manufactures more than 300 products, including:
- Motor gasoline (automobiles, tractors, lawn equipment)
- Diesel fuel (autos, trains, boats, heating, power generation)
- Jet fuel (jet airliners, military jets)
- Aviation gasoline (propeller aircraft)
- Lubricating oils (engine oils, transmission fluid, chain saws)
- Waxes (makeup, candles, crayons and gum)
- Petroleum coke (furnace fuel, anodes for aluminum production)
- Liquefied petroleum gas (heating, cooking, refrigeration, tobacco and grain drying, soldering, chemical feedstock)
- Chemical feedstock (used to produce chemicals)
