Of course they ARE going to burn it
--- why do you think they are piling it up ????
C'mon people
In 2011, U.S. refineries produced 61.5 million tons of petcoke, enough to fire 50 coal plants for a year.
The report says that Canadian exports of petcoke to the U.S. more than doubled between 2010 and 2012, and BP Whiting’s expansion will triple its petcoke production to 6,000 tons per day.
Detroit’s Marathon refinery wasn’t producing petcoke before its expansion, according to the report, but now produces 1,720 tons per day while the Phillips 66 refinery in Wood River, Illinois, is increasing its petcoke output from 1,300 to 5,700 tons per day.
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