Giant oil company is building world's largest facility to turn vegetable oil and grease into cleaner gasoline

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By Joseph Guzman | August 12, 2020

Fuel maker Phillips 66 is moving to convert a San Francisco-area crude oil refinery into the world’s largest renewable fuels plant by early 2024, the company announced Wednesday.

The facility located in Rodeo, Calif., will be reconfigured to no longer produce fuels from crude oil and instead produce renewable fuel from used cooking oil, fats, greases and soybean oils.

The company said it expects to produce 680 million gallons a year of renewable diesel and gasoline and sustainable jet fuel. When combined with production from an existing smaller sustainable fuels project, the facility could produce more than 800 million gallons of renewable fuels each year by 2024, pending regulatory approval.

The conversion is expected to cut the plant’s greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent.

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