BP to process more heavy oil

BP said Wednesday it will spend $3 billion to upgrade its Whiting, Ind., refinery to process more Canadian crude and benefit from increasing production from deposits buried in northern Alberta.

The refinery, the fifth-largest in the U.S., will run almost entirely on heavy Canadian crude, including supplies extracted from oil sands, once the project is finished in 2011, BP America President Robert Malone said. Construction is expected to begin in 2007.
Houston Chronicle