San Antonio-based refiner Tesoro Corp. plans to invest US$400 mln for conducting facility upgrades to extract xylene feedstocks in its U.S. West Coast refining system, as per bizjournals.com. The US$400 million initial investment will lead to recovery to 15,000 bpd of xylene. Tesoro expects to start up its new facilities in 2017, subject to permitting and approval by regulators.
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