ExxonMobil ExxonMobil Corporation (commonly shortened to Exxon) is an American multinational oil and gas corporation headquartered in Irving, Texas. It is the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, and was formed on November 3 ...

's Baton Rouge Refinery in

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Baton Rouge ( ; ) is a city in and the List of capitals in the United States, capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, it is the county seat, parish seat of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, E ...

is the fifth-largest

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in the

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and thirteenth-largest in the world, with an input capacity of per day as of January 1, 2020. The refinery is the site of the first commercial fluid catalytic cracking plant that began processing at the refinery on May 25, 1942.

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first erected the refinery in 1909. Today's facility is part of a complex made of nine individual plants across the region. The main plant is located on the east bank of the

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. There are about 6,300 workers spread across these sites, including 4,000 direct

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s (the rest are

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). In 2013 Genesis Energy LP announced an investment of $125 million to improve ExxonMobil's existing assets in the Baton Rouge area. The investment includes plans to build an 18-mile, 20-inch diameter crude oil pipeline that connects Genesis Energy's Port Hudson terminal, to ExxonMobil's Baton Rouge refinery. The Baton Rouge refinery's tank farm has a capacity of 540,000 barrel-per-day (bpd). ExxonMobil Baton Rouge

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2007 Louisiana Crude Oil Refinery Survey ReportExxonMobil: A Legacy of Commitment to Baton RougeInterview with Site Manager Stan Vanderleeuw in BIC Magazine, February 2007
Energy infrastructure completed in 1909 Oil refineries in the United States Energy infrastructure in Louisiana Economy of Baton Rouge, Louisiana ExxonMobil buildings and structures {{BatonRougeLA-struct-stub

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