Ah yes. The Great Karnak. By try, I meant dealing with the epa. An arduous task for sure.
I used to work for a company that mainly designed refinery units, specializing in the heavy oil end but also did complete refineries for places like Brazil and other countries.
The cost of adding 250 MBPD to an existing refinery of the same size was about 40% the total cost of building a 250 MBPD refinery on a completely empty location. The infrastructure to support the increased output is so much cheaper than building it from scratch.