Our Bay Shore plant forms an alliance with British Petroleum The British Petroleum (BP) Toledo Refinery upgraded its facility to process a less expensive grade of crude oil, which reduced its operating costs by millions of dollars.  The new process produces more than 500,000 tons a year of petroleum coke, a waste by-product. The Unit 1 boiler at our Bay Shore Power Plant was replaced with state-of-the-art technology that uses petroleum coke as a fuel. Recycling the waste at the nearby Bay Shore Power Plant saves BP significant disposal costs while reducing Bay Shore Unit 1's fuel costs.

The new boiler reduced nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide emissions to well below those of the 40-year-old equipment it replaced.

The 20-year contract with BP will enable the refinery to significantly cut the use of two of its boilers, reducing overall emissions. For the refinery and the Bay Shore Power Plant, the project will reduce annual carbon-dioxide emissions by 160,000 tons, nitrogen-oxide emissions by 3,400 tons and sulfur-dioxide by 70 tons.

The Bay Shore-BP Project will benefit the environment by recycling petroleum coke, which otherwise would have to be disposed of in other ways, such as shipping it to a landfill.


Petroleum coke pipeline from the refinery to the Bay Shore Power Plant

Community growth
The Bay Shore-BP Project will help preserve 500 refinery jobs and 175 jobs at the Bay Shore Power Plant. These jobs are important to the community, since every 100 jobs create more than $2 million in personal income and $2 million in additional retail sales.

The project will maintain more than $8 million in annual revenues to the local tax district from the Bay Shore Power Plant and the refinery.

Additionally, about 1,000 construction jobs were created by both projects for a two-year period, producing even more tax revenues.

(07/08/08)