Philadelphia refinery to process up to 180,000 b/d of Bakken crude: CEO

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Philadelphia — Philadelphia Energy Solutions, the new owner of the US East Coast's longest-running oil refinery, hopes to rely on Midcontinent crudes for as much as 55% of its 330,000 b/d capacity in coming years as it also expands the Pennsylvania complex into chemicals, electricity cogeneration and gas-to-liquids, the company's CEO said Wednesday. "For most of its history, virtually 100% of the crude oil that has come to this refinery has been Atlantic basin crudes," Phil Rinaldi told reporters after an event to mark the continued operation of the 140-year complex. "Those are crudes that we find have become a little bit detached from the economics of this region.