Lake Charles Needle Coke Plant

Phillips 66 / NOVONIX · Lake Charles, USA · Needle coke

Anode precursor plant operated by Phillips 66 / NOVONIX in Lake Charles, USA. Status: operational.

Lake Charles Needle Coke Plant: anode plant illustration with graphitization furnace and spheroidizing mill; Needle coke, status operational, USA Needle coke Operational USA
Capacity
30.0 kt/yr
Product
Needle coke (precursor)
Start year
2022
Hub
Supply Chain

Status

Operational: Legacy record placed this at Rodeo, California, a refinery since converted to renewable fuels

Product: Needle coke (precursor). Capacity: 30.0 kt/yr (Legacy figure; not re-verified).

Needle coke is the synthetic-graphite precursor; Phillips 66 is one of the few non-Chinese producers.

Customers and offtakers: Novonix / US graphite producers.

Plant record

Plant record

Lake Charles Needle Coke Plant (Phillips 66 / NOVONIX)
CompanyPhillips 66 / NOVONIX
PlantLake Charles Needle Coke Plant
CityLake Charles
State or provinceLouisiana
CountryUSA
Materialneedle coke
ProductNeedle coke (precursor)
Capacity (kt/yr)30.0
Capacity basisLegacy figure; not re-verified
Statusoperational
Status noteLegacy record placed this at Rodeo, California, a refinery since converted to renewable fuels; Phillips 66 needle coke is made at Lake Charles and Humber (UK)
Scalecommercial
Start year2022
Investment (US$ billion)0.
Customers and offtakersNovonix / US graphite producers
Carbon or silicon sourcePetroleum-derived needle coke
Geopolitical exposureLOW
Record updated2026-10

Official site: phillips66.com

In context

Where it fits

Listed in Anode Active Materials. Anode plants are compared on route (natural or synthetic graphite, silicon, hard carbon), the step they own (mining, graphitization, spheroidizing, coating), capacity and cell qualification; purification, graphitization and coating are the bottlenecks, not graphite itself.

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Sources

Sources and scope

Scope
Lake Charles Needle Coke Plant (Phillips 66 / NOVONIX)
Sources
ElectronsX anode dataset; company disclosures and filings
Updated
2026-10