Exxon Mobil Restarts Coker Unit at Baytown, Texas, Refinery

By Christian Schmollinger
     Nov. 18, 2008 (Bloomberg) — Exxon Mobil Corp., the world’s
largest oil company, restarted a heavy-oil upgrading unit at its
refinery in Baytown, Texas.
     A gas turbine may release emissions during the start up of
the plants so-called flexicoker unit, the company said in a
filing with state regulators. The restart will last until Dec. 3,
Exxon told the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
     A flexicoker converts the heaviest components of crude oil
into lighter components such as diesel fuel and gasoline.
     The Baytown refinery, the largest in the U.S., has the
capacity to process 590,500 barrels of oil a day, U.S. Energy
Department data show.