Rodeo San Francisco Refinery

The San Francisco Refinery is an oil refinery complex located in Rodeo, California and in Arroyo Grande, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area and Santa Maria Valley.

[1] The refinery is owned and operated by Phillips 66, a downstream company with midstream and chemical businesses spun off from ConocoPhillips in 2012.

[2] The Rodeo facility was built in 1896 and was the first major oil refinery in the Bay Area.

Additional finished products produced at the facility were petroleum coke (carbon) and sulfur.

[5] According to a 2024 proposal from Phillips 66, the facility is slated for an eight-month demolition and a remediation period that may last up to 10 years.

Aerial view of Rodeo facility in 2014, with Carquinez Bridge at right.