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15 A day in the life of Baton Rouge Story by Mike Long <strong>ExxonMobil</strong>’s world-class Baton Rouge refining and petrochemical facilities can process more than 500,000 barrels of crude oil per day and manufacture 10 billion pounds plus of petrochemicals annually, making them a mainstay of the U.S. economy. Dawn breaks over the tallest state capitol in the United States and the twinkling lights of the Baton Rouge refining and chemical complex. The refinery began operations in 1909 on a 225-acre site along the Mississippi River, with a petrochemical plant added in 1940. Today, the complex spreads across 2,100 acres and is the second largest in the United States. Story by Mike Long Photography by Robert Seale Crude oil enters the refinery via these pipelines for conversion into hundreds of products that help keep the U.S. economy running, including 3.6 billion gallons of gasoline per year. Maurice Sanders, an assistant operator in the refinery, gauges the volume of hydrocarbons in a refinery storage tank. The complex employs a company and contractor workforce of about 5,500, representing an annual payroll exceeding $325 million.
These fluid catalytic cracking units refine heavier components of crude oil into heating oil, diesel and gasoline-blending components. The first fluid catalytic cracking unit was built in Baton Rouge in the 1940s, enabling production of 100-octane aviation gasoline to support the Allied forces’ victory in World War II. Michael Galloway, step-up supervisor, monitors refinery operations from the state-of-the-art computerized control center. An estimated 7 billion bits of information flow through the center’s computers every second. 16
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