Jim Hughes, a specialist with the Montana Department of Environmental Quality, said officials from the company met with him Wednesday to discuss the project, which would raise the plant's maximum operating capacity to 71,000 barrels a day from 61,000 currently.
"They're going to change out their old crude unit and replace it with a new unit," Hughes told Bloomberg News.
Hughes said ConocoPhillips officials told him they plan to submit permit applications for the expansion by the end of February. The project would be completed in 2011.
Houston-based ConocoPhillips had no comment.
The Billings refinery is the second-largest in Montana, behind Exxon Mobil's facility in Billings.
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