Coffeyville Refinery

Coffeyville Refinery. Tied to Historic Well. A refinery in Coffeyville, Kansas, played a key role in the productive life of the Nellie Johnstone No. 1 well for more than 40 years. Although the historic well ceased operation long ago, the refinery today continues to operate as Coffeyville Resources Refining and Marketing, LLC, one of the largest independent refineries in the Mid-Continent region., From 1903 to 1947, the Nellie Johnstone No. 1 well produced an estimated 100,000 barrels of oil, which were ultimately transformed into more than four million gallons of petroleum products., The first barrels of oil pumped from the Nellie Johnstone well were transported by railroad tank cars to a small refinery in Neodesha, Kansas. By 1907, oil from most Bartlesville area wells flowed to a new refinery near Coffeyville, Kansas. Owned by National Refining Company, the Coffeyville refinery occupied 75 acres northeast of the city and processed 2,500 barrels of oil per day. National Refining acquired the production from the Nellie Johnstone well by purchasing Cudahy Oil Company, the firm that originally drilled and owned the well., To gather oil from the Nellie Johnstone well and numerous area wells, National Refining built a pipeline pump station and stock tanks along what is now Highway 123 between Bartlesville and Dewey, Oklahoma. The facility, which is approximately a mile north of Discovery 1 Park, continues to be a hub of area oil-gathering operations today, operated by Coffeyville Resources Crude Transportation, LLC., In 1944, National Refining sold the Coffeyville operations, pipelines and oil wells, including the Nellie Johnstone well, to the Cooperative Refinery Association (CRA) of Kansas City, Missouri. With the well's production dwindling to just a few gallons a day in the late 1940s, CRA plugged the Nellie Johnstone well and deeded it to the City of Bartlesville in 1948 for a historic site., Coffeyville Resources took ownership of the Coffeyville refinery and associated operations in 2004. The company is one of the region's largest crude oil purchasers. Coffeyville Resources Crude Transportation operates a 25,000 barrels per day crude oil gathering and trucking system located in Bartlesville, and Plainville and Winfield, Kansas. The gathering system is comprised of over 300 miles of pipelines and associated tankage and truck transportation facilities., Coffeyville Resources Refining and Marketing is capable of processing 115,000 barrels of crude oil per day. The facility, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2006, is equipped to transform heavy, high-sulfur crude oil into high-quality, clean transportation products., The parent company of Coffeyville Resources is CVR Energy, Inc., based in Sugar Land, Texas. In addition to being a refiner and marketer of petroleum products, CVR Energy produces and markets nitrogen fertilizer products through Coffeyville Resources Nitrogen Fertilizers, LLC, located adjacent to the refinery., Captions , (Photo #1) National Refining Company, a previous operator of the Coffeyville refinery, owned the historic Nellie Johnstone No. 1 from 1907 to 1944, when it was sold to the Cooperative Refinery Association. The well was subsequently plugged and given to the City of Bartlesville in 1948. , (Photo #2) Motors bum inside a typical pipeline pump station similar to the National Refining facility near Bartlesville that helped move Nellie Johnstone No. 1 oil on to the Coffeyville refinery. , (Photo #3) The Coffeyville refinery opened in 1906 with a capacity to process 2,500 barrels of oil per day. Its owner, National Refining Company, was the second largest oil company in the United States at the time. , (Photo #4) Crude oil processed into fuel, lubricants and other petroleum products at the Coffeyville refinery was shipped by railroad tank cars to locations throughout the country, including the Bartlesville area. , (Photo #5) A pipeline map dating back to the early 1900s indicates the approximate location of the Nellie Johnstone No. 1 well in relation to the National Refining Company pump station, about a mile to the north. , (Photo #6) Today, Coffeyville Resources Refining and Marketing operates one of the largest independent refining operations in the region, capable of processing 115,000 barrels per day of crude oil. Coffeyville Resources is a major purchaser of crude oil produced in Kansas and Oklahoma.