Technology
Proven Technology, Purpose-Built
Pecos UltraClean Refining combines modern refinery design, modular engineering, and carbon management technologies to create a more efficient refining platform for the Permian Basin.
Modern Refinery Design
Designed from the Ground Up
The refinery was designed with singular focus, engineered entirely around known conditions: the right crude, the right product, and the right location.
That clarity shows up everywhere in the design. The process configuration is streamlined rather than layered. The facility layout was drawn to accommodate carbon capture rather than to work around it. Equipment was selected for a remote location with minimal staffing. Nothing in the plant exists because it was there before.
01 - Design
Ground-Up Design
Engineered in a single pass for today’s conditions, avoiding legacy modifications.
02 - Optimization
Feedstock Optimized
Purpose-built specifically for 44-50+ API Permian light sweet crude.
03 - Configuration
Modern Configuration
A streamlined core designed to recover over 85% of the diesel boiling range.
04 - Streamlined
Efficient Operations
Fewer process units than a full-conversion facility, which means less energy per barrel and fewer points of failure.
05 - Integrated
Integrated Layout
Drawn so carbon capture works across the major furnace stacks rather than on a single stack.
06 - Flexibility
Long-Term Flexibility
A pre-engineered, documented path to expand capabilities as markets evolve.
Proven technology, new configuration.
Every component of this refinery is proven in service. What no one has done is bring them together this way, at this scale, in the basin that produces the crude.
A Patented Platform
The refinery is built on the Polaris UltraFuels process, protected under U.S. Patent 11,180,705 B2.
Purpose-Built Fabrication
Modules are fabricated at a dedicated Gulf Coast facility with a workforce that builds this equipment as its primary business.
Already Permitted at Smaller Scale
An earlier facility using this design with a gasoline complex received a Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Permit-by-Rule on an expedited basis.
Deep Process Engineering Experience
The platform was developed by process engineers with more than thirty years each in refinery design and experience across more than fifty refineries worldwide.
ULSD-Focused Configuration
Why Diesel
Ultra-low sulfur diesel is the fuel this region runs on. West Texas produces very little of it locally.
Focusing the refinery on diesel rather than a full product slate carries real engineering consequences. Fewer process units are required. Less energy is consumed per barrel. Capital intensity per barrel of capacity drops. And the plant concentrates its output in the product with the strongest regional demand.
The configuration is a streamlined subset of a previously engineered and permitted full-conversion design. The complexity was removed deliberately, not omitted by necessity.
- High-Value Transportation Fuel: Diesel commands a persistent price premium in West Texas.
- Growing Regional Demand: Strong demand across West Texas and southeast New Mexico, while the nearest refineries sit outside the Permian core, aren't diesel-dedicated, and are decades old.
Simplified Processing Configuration
A crude splitter and diesel hydrotreating core that recovers more than 85% of the diesel boiling range as hydrotreater feed
Modular Engineering
Built in a Shop, Assembled on Site
By utilizing shop-fabricated, truckable modules for its two identical 30,000-bpd trains, the refinery eliminates weather delays, compresses the schedule, and supports consistent quality.
01 - Fabricate
Piping and steel built into modules in a controlled shop
- Controlled shop conditions
- Eliminates weather-related delays
- Reduces overall construction complexity
02 - Transport
Truckable modules shipped to the Pecos County site
- Standardized for efficient truck delivery
- Reduces on-site labor requirements
- Lowers overall cost and logistics risk
03 - Assemble
Installed as two identical 30,000 BPD trains
- Compresses the overall installation schedule
- Pre-engineered for seamless future expansion
- Compounding efficiency
Carbon Capture
Integrated Carbon Capture
By building carbon capture directly into the facility’s blueprint, Pecos achieves a scale of CO₂ reduction that is incomparable to existing refineries.
Nearly all of a refinery’s carbon dioxide comes from its furnace stacks. Capturing it is well understood technically, but in an existing refinery it is close to impossible at any real scale, because those facilities were laid out decades before anyone considered it. Capture might be added to one stack here or there. Rarely more.
Pecos was drawn differently. Because carbon capture was part of the design from the first drawing, the facility can capture across its major furnace stacks rather than a single one.
The captured volume, approximately 905 tons per day, travels by dedicated 28-mile pipeline to a Permian enhanced oil recovery operation, where it is injected underground to produce additional domestic oil and remain in geologic storage.
~ 905 Tons/Day
Of captured carbon.
~80%
Reduction in CO2 relative to conventional refining benchmarks.
28-mile
Dedicated pipeline to a Permian enhanced oil recovery operation.
Behind-the-Meter Power Generation
Powered On Site
By generating its own electricity behind the meter via a dedicated natural gas pipeline, the refinery completely eliminates exposure to grid delays, price volatility, and power outages.
Operational Reliability
Power generated on site by dedicated equipment, insulated from grid disruptions and regional load events.
Reduced Dependence on Grid Availability
No interconnection queue, which removes one of the most common sources of delay for new industrial projects.
Improved Cost Control
Power costs tied to a local fuel supply rather than to wholesale market volatility.
Stable Long-Term Operations
A predictable energy position across decades of operation.
Greater Energy Independence
A ten-mile natural gas pipeline supplies the facility directly from local production
Efficient Process Design
Fewer process units and less energy consumed per barrel
Environment
Environmental Performance
Building new allows us to deploy modern control technology from day one. While most U.S. refineries operate on 60-year-old grandfathered standards, our facility targets reductions against conventional benchmarks.
~95%
Lower SO₂
Sulfur dioxide emissions reduced by roughly 95% relative to conventional refining benchmarks.
~80%
Lower CO₂
Driven by integrated carbon capture, internal hydrogen generation, and a simplified process configuration.
~50%
Lower NOx and VOC
(Versus typical Gulf Coast refineries). Modern combustion controls and emissions equipment applied across the facility.
Modern Emissions Controls
Every component compliant with current environmental standards, with no grandfathered equipment.
Pecos will meet or exceed all EPA and TCEQ regulations, while many existing U.S. refineries operate under grandfathered emission allowances that let them exceed current standards.
Investment
Looking Ahead
Pecos is not just a single refinery—it is a repeatable model. Built from standardized modules, our engineering, permitting, and construction approach can be duplicated to add efficient, environmentally sound refining capacity close to production.
A Platform, Not a One-Off
This standardized design isn’t just a one-off solution. The same standardized design can be deployed again wherever crude supply and fuel demand line up the way they do in Pecos County.
Room to Grow on This Site
Land, water rights, and pipeline connections were secured with expansion in mind. Adding capacity means repeating a proven train, not engineering a new plant.
Room to Broaden the Slate
The current configuration is a focused subset of a fully engineered conversion design, leaving a documented path to expand processing capability if markets shift.
See the Project this Technology Builds
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