Contra Costa Carbon Plant

USA / California / Rodeo / Franklin Canyon Road, 2101
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1. ConocoPhillips Company (hereinafter called Discharger) presently owns and operates the
Contra Costa Carbon Plant, a petroleum coke calcining and power generating facility
(hereinafter called the Facility). On January 1, 2003, Tosco Corporation merged into
ConocoPhillips Company, with the latter assuming the rights and responsibilities
associated with the environmental permits for the Facility.
2. The Facility is located at 2101 Franklin Canyon Road, approximately two miles southeast
of Rodeo (Figure 1).
3. Tosco Refining Company (hereinafter called Tosco) owned and operated the Facility
from April 1997 until January 2003.
4. Unocal Corporation (hereinafter called Unocal) owned and operated the Facility from
1896 to April 1997.
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Coordinates:   38°1'0"N   122°14'4"W

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  • Its not a power plant. Its a coal plant that cooks the coal and makes a substance called coke.
  • This is known as a Carbon Plant. It takes petroleum coke, produced from the crude bottoms at the adjacent refinery in Rodeo and processes it in the rotary kilns into what is known as calcined coke. The end product is used is aluminum smelting and other industrial processes. The BSNF services the facility on the Stockton sub from the Richmond yard.
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