But the movement of Chevron’s steel coke drums – which are part of a refinery process unit called a coker – will pose similar logistical challenges, given that they weigh 500,000 pounds ...

Plump Engineering in Anaheim is in the process of moving six 500,000-pound coke drums to the Chevron fuel refinery in El Segundo. But for President Richard Plump such work is old hat. “Once y… ...

The coker enables the refinery to process sour, or higher sulfur, crude oil into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and other products. The original drums, about 20 years old, need replacing and will be ...

At ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, engineers are using the ROMeo platform to monitor the removal of coke from a delayed coker. The delayed coker operates with a pair of drums, where material that ...

The big red crane is needed to remove the two old coke drums and to hoist the new 350-ton drums into place. The drums enable the refinery to process sour crude oil into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel ...

U.S. Steel officials announced Tuesday they would begin removing coke from the ovens at the Clairton Coke Works plant. The ...

The terms of the contract were not disclosed. Foster Wheeler was involved in the earlier conceptual study, process design, and front-end engineering phases of the coke drum replacement project.

The drums will replace ones that have been in place at Chevron's El Segundo refinery since 1968. The company uses the drums to process materials when producing fuel.

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. (KTLA) – The transport of six massive coke drums to El Segundo’s Chevron oil refinery will cause road closures and detours in the South Bay beginning this week. The first ...