Flint Hills Resources’ North Pole Refinery near Fairbanks, Alaska, has a crude oil processing capacity of about 220,000 barrels per day. An affiliated company acquired the North Pole Refinery – Alaska’s largest – in 2004. It processes North Slope crude oil and supplies gasoline, jet fuel, heating oil, diesel, gasoil and asphalt to Alaska markets. About 60 percent of the refinery’s production is destined for the aviation market.

The company also owns and operates products terminals in Fairbanks and Anchorage that store and distribute asphalt, fuel oils, diesel, jet fuel and gasoline refined at the North Pole Refinery. The Anchorage Terminal receives products from the North Pole Refinery via Alaska Railroad tank cars, annually offloading about 28,000 rail cars. That product is then distributed locally and to locations along Alaska's coastline and the Far East. The Anchorage terminal facility can store more than 700,000 barrels. A pipeline system extends from the facility one-half mile away to the Port of Anchorage and enables bulk fuel transfers to and from other terminals and vessels berthed at the municipality's POL docks. The terminal loads an average of 60 to 80 vessels annually.

The Fairbanks Terminal stores, in bulk, jet fuel that is delivered by tanker truck from the refinery to the four vertical storage tanks. Jet fuel is loaded from tanks into 10,000-gallon aircraft refueling trucks called fuel tenders, or "DARTS" and delivered to airline customers. The DARTS fuel 18 to 24 flights per day. The terminal was built in the early 1970s.

History
Oil was discovered in Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay in 1968, paving the way for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System’s construction. In 1975-76, plans were initiated to build a 25,000 barrel-per-day refinery in North Pole using Alaskan crude. The first crude flowed from Prudhoe Bay in June, 1977; in August, the North Pole Refinery produced its first barrel of product.

Then-owner, Earth Resources, expanded the plant’s capacity to 45,000 barrels per day in 1980, and then sold the majority of its stock to MAPCO. MAPCO furthered expanded the refinery in 1985 to increase the amount of heating and jet fuel produced, and added asphalt and gasoline production. Capacity increased to 90,000 barrels per day in 1985 and further expanded to 130,000 and then 215,000 barrels per day. In March 1998, Williams Companies acquired MAPCO.

Flint Hills Resources Alaska acquired the North Pole Refinery and associated terminals in Fairbanks and Anchorage in July, 2004. The plant celebrated 30 years of operations in August 2007.