BP Whiting, Indiana, refinery starts up new hydrotreater

BP Plc started up a new naphtha hydrotreater (NHT) this week at its 435,000 barrel-per-day Whiting, Indiana, refinery, said company spokeswoman Sarah Howell.

The 85,000-bpd NHT took three years and cost more than $300 million to build, Howell said.

“The NHT allows the refinery to produce the full slate of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Tier 3 fuels, which require gasoline to have an average sulfur content of no more than 10 parts per million,” she said.

Hydrotreaters use hydrogen to remove sulfur from motor fuels.

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