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Douglas Grandt answerthecall@me.com

Retire Billings Refinery
December 6, 2016 at 11:51 AM
Rex Tillerson Rex.W.Tillerson@ExxonMobil.com
Darren W. Woods Darren.W.Woods@ExxonMobil.com, Suzanne M. McCarron Suzanne.M.McCarron@ExxonMobil.com,
Max Schulz max.schulz@exxonmobil.com

Dear Rex Tillerson,

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Dakota Access Pipeline intends to transport 470,000 bbl/d of Bakken crude.

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If Dakota Access Pipeline never gets completed, and if global oil price
remains depressed, that could bring on the demise of the Bakken. Not having
any idea exactly where all of the Bakken crude production is refined, but
knowing that rail is the mode of transport, I surmise that ExxonMobils
production is feedstock to your Billings Refinery (60,000 bbl/day).
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Please consider shutting down the Billings Refinery as an act of good faith,
indicating ExxonMobil's support for COP 195-Nations "1.5C aspiration."
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I am certain that at least of few of ExxonMobils thousands of engineers and

scientists are very familiar with the conclusions of James Hansen et al paper
that was published December 3, 2013 (Bit.ly/HansenPLOS) and of the German
Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) paper published in 2009
(Bit.ly/WBGU-2009) both of which admonished immediate reductions in global
CO2 emissions in the range of 5%, 6% or 9% per annum, depending upon
when emissions might have begun. So far, we have missed the lower rates.
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Part and parcel of achieving such CO2 reductions is the reduction of crude
production which is feedstock to refineries. I dont need to explain this to
youof all peopleor any of your thousands of engineers and scientists.
That implies, of course, the ultimate shutting down of refining operations
gradually over about 15-16 yearstwo decades at the most.
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As Secretary of State, you would be expected to support COP aspirations.

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Why not start now? Retire Billings Refinery. Dismantle it. Clean up the site.
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Sincerely yours,
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Doug Grandt

Wikipedia - List of Oil Refineries

Bit.ly/WikiRefineries
As of January 2015, there are 137 operating oil refineries in the United States per U.S. Energy Information Administration
United States
Illinois, Joliet Refinery (ExxonMobil), Joliet 238,600 bbl/d
Louisiana, Baton Rouge Refinery (ExxonMobil), Baton Rouge 502,500 bbl/d
Montana, Billings Refinery (ExxonMobil), Billings 60,000 bbl/d
Texas, Baytown Refinery (ExxonMobil), Baytown 560,500 bbl/d
Texas, Beaumont Refinery (ExxonMobil), Beaumont 344,600 bbl/d
Australia
Victoria, Altona Refinery (ExxonMobil), about 75,000 bbl/d
South Australia, Port Stanvac Refinery (ExxonMobil), 100,000 bbl/d
Belgium
ExxonMobil Antwerp Refinery (ExxonMobil), 333,000 bbl/d
England
Fawley Refinery (ExxonMobil), 330,000 bbl/d
France
Port Jrme-Gravenchon Refinery (ExxonMobil), 270,000 bbl/d
Fos-sur-Mer Refinery (ExxonMobil), 140,000 bbl/d
Germany
Minerallraffinerie Oberrhein - Mineraloil Refinery Upper-Rhine (Karlsruhe) (MiRO(Shell/ExxonMobil/Rosneft/BP/Phillips 66))
285,000 bbl/d
Italy
Sarpom Trecate, Novara Refinery (ExxonMobil 74.1%), 200,000 bbl/d (ExxonMobil 148,200 bbl/d)
Esso Augusta Refinery (ExxonMobil), 190,000 bbl/d
Japan
Chiba Refinery (Kyokuto) (Kyokuto Petroleum /ExxonMobil), 175,000 bbl/d
Kawasaki Refinery (TonenGeneral Sekiyu /ExxonMobil), 335,000 bbl/d
Wakayama Refinery (TonenGeneral Sekiyu /ExxonMobil), 170,000 bbl/d
Sakai Refinery (TonenGeneral) (TonenGeneral Sekiyu /ExxonMobil), 156,000 bbl/d
Netherlands
Botlek (ExxonMobil) Rotterdam, 195,000 bbl/d
Norway
Slagen Refinery (ExxonMobil), 110,000 bbl/d
Qatar
Lafan Refinery (ExxonMobil 10%), 146,000 bbl/d (ExxonMobil 14,600 bbl/d)
Saudi Arabia
Yanbu' Refinery (SAMREF) (Saudi Aramco/Exxon Mobil), 400,000 bbl/d
Singapore
ExxonMobil Jurong Island Refinery (ExxonMobil), 605,000 bbl/d
Thailand
Sri Racha Refinery (ExxonMobil), 170,000 bbl/d
Venezuela
Petropiar earlier Cerro Negro (ExxonMobil, Aral AG, and PDVSA) 120,000 bbl/d