 BP Refinery in Carson, from Wilmington Ave. near E 223rd St. | |
| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| State | California |
| City | Carson |
| Refinery details | |
| Commissioned | 1923 |
| Capacity | 265,000 bbl/d (42,100 m3/d) |
| No. of employees | 1218, plus approximately 600 contract employees |
| Refining units | alkylation, isomerisation, distillation of crude oil, hydrocracking, reforming catalytic, cracking catalytic, thermal catalytic, desulphuration, polymerization, hydrodesalkylation |
The BP Carson Refinery is an oil refinery in Carson, California, within the Los Angeles Basin, owned and operated by BP. With a throughput of 265,000 barrels of oil per day it is the second-largest refinery in California and 18th-largest in the United States;[1] in addition, as of 2009 the facility had the second-highest assessed value of any property in Los Angeles County (after the Chevron El Segundo Refinery; the Getty Museum came in third).[2] Most of the crude oil coming in to the refinery is from Alaska, arriving by way of the Port of Los Angeles, and approximately three-quarters of the output of the refinery is gasoline for the U.S. market.[3][4]