Coke Drum Project | About the Refinery | Chevron El Segundo Refinery

Delivering New Coke Drums to Chevron's El Segundo Refinery

To help ensure the continued operation of the Chevron El Segundo Refinery, we are replacing six existing coke drums. The massive new drums traveled 7,330 miles from Spain to the Port of Los Angeles, but it was the last 4.5 miles of the trip, along the Pacific Coast Highway to the refinery, that were the most complex. The new drums will be installed in the same location within the refinery, replacing the current drums, which are nearing the end of their useful life.

Project Overview

In order to help ensure the continued operation of the Chevron El Segundo Refinery, Chevron will replace six existing coke drums that are reaching the end of their useful life with new drums of the same size and location within the refinery.

The coke drums are an important component of the Chevron Refinery, which supplies over 20% of the motor vehicle fuels used in Southern California and 40% of the jet fuel at the Los Angeles International Airport. The purpose of these changes is to increase reliability of the coke drum operations while taking advantage of more than 40 years of industry advances in coke drum design.

Safety is Chevron's number one priority and will be strictly maintained throughout the Coke Drum Reliability Project.