# CONOCO, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1987 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `34234`
- **Case Number:** 06-1987-0206
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $250K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CONOCO, INC, PONCA CITY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

CONCO INC. (CONCO) OWNS AND OPERATES A PETROLEUM REFINING  FACILITY WHICH CONSISTS OF TWO ADJACENT REFINERIES IN PONCA  CITY, OKLAHOMA.  CRUDE PETROLEUM IS RECEIVED AND PROCESSED   INTO A VERIETY OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS.  OFF-GASES RESULTING   FROM MANY PROCESS OPERATIONS ARE SENT TO CENTRAL COLLECTION  POINTS CALLED FUEL GAS DRUMS.   THESE OFF-GASES COMPRISE     WHAT IS CALLED FUEL GAS OR FINERY GAS AND USUALLY CONTAIN    SULFUR COMPOUNDS SUCH AS HYDROGEN SULFIDE (H2S).  THE FUEL   GAS IS DISTRIBUTED FROM THE FUEL GAS DRUMS TO PROCESS HEATE- RS TO BE USED AS FUEL FOR COMBUSTION WHICH PROVIDES ENGRY    INPUT TO PROCESS OPERATIONS.  THREE PROCESS HEATERS ARE IN-  VOLVED IN THIS ACTION AND HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED BY CONOCO     AS HEATERS H-59, H-6014, AND H-6015.  THESE THREE PROCESS    HEATERS ARE SUBJECT TO THE STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR      PETROLEUM REFINERIES CODIFIED IN 40 C.F.R. PART 60, SUBPART  J.                                                             CONCO OPERATES A FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING GAS OIL HYDRO-   TREATER (FCCGOH) AT THEIR PONCA CITY FACILITY.  HYDROTREAT-  ING (HYDRODESULFURIZATION) AS THE PROCESS IS USED IN THIS    CASE, INVOLVES TAKING GAS OIL FOR THE FCC AND TREATING IT TO  REMOVE SUCH IMPURITIES AS SULFUR, NITROGEN, AND METAL COMP- OUNDS.  THIS PRETREATMENT PROLONGS CATALYST LIFE AND THE     TIME BETWEEN CYCLES IN THE CRACKER.                            CONCO ALSO OPERATES A CRYOGENIC RECOVERY UNIT (CRU).  A    SECOND CRU IS PLANNED FOR START-UP ON 

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