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What Phillips 66 layoffs have meant for employees

In two Phillips 66 refinery closings, the end of the work and the end of the jobs didn't arrive together. Los Angeles stopped making fuel late in 2025, according to Phillips 66's annual report for 2025, and its 2026 California notices set end dates running into December 2026. At the Alliance refinery in Louisiana, Reuters reported in 2022 that about half the hourly staff were to leave first and the rest to stay through May 1. If you're working through a closing like these, the day a plant stops and the date on a notice can sit months apart. In both, production stopped well ahead of the end dates set for the jobs.

Some of these cuts came with somewhere to go for part of the workforce, whether that was work at other locations for Santa Maria refinery staff, as CalCoastNews reported, positions at other sites for some DCP Midstream employees, which a spokesperson described to the Denver Gazette, or the roughly 27 hourly workers Reuters' sources said were training to run Alliance's new terminal. If you hold restricted stock and you're offered a place at another Phillips 66 site, Phillips 66's Restricted Stock Program terms don't treat a transfer between Phillips 66 and its approved wholly owned subsidiaries as a termination for award purposes, which is worth weighing beside the pay, the hours and the drive.

In the company-wide cost cutting that began in 2022, the numbers attached to cuts have blended different things. That year Phillips 66 projected a workforce under 12,900 by the end of 2022, down from 14,000, and a spokesperson told CNN the drop came from attrition and eliminated positions together, with people leaving on their own shrinking how many employees the reductions reached. The 2023 finance and procurement cut Argus reported counted contractors alongside employees, while others in those teams were to stay on in new roles. So if your department shows up in an announcement like these, the headline figure can run ahead of the number of people actually let go, and being moved to another job in-house is a different outcome from a layoff.

Some layoff notices for Phillips 66 work carry another company's name. Sentinel Transportation, DCP Midstream and Hunt & Sons LLC all appear on the company's 2025 subsidiary listing, and each filed notices under its own name. Sentinel is a wholly owned unit that provides some of Phillips 66's truck movements, so its drivers' notices sit apart from any refinery's. All 14 sites on Hunt & Sons' October 2024 notices appear again among Sentinel's March 2026 notices, so some of the same places drew notices from two Phillips 66 units. If you worked for Sentinel, Hunt & Sons or DCP Midstream, the notices for those events carry the unit's own name, so finding them can take a search under that name instead of Phillips 66's.

If you're handed a release of liability when you're laid off and you still have awards from the company's restricted stock program, the program terms make keeping a prorated portion of those awards depend on completing the release and not revoking it, and without that the awards are forfeited. So any deadline attached to the release is worth marking on the calendar, along with any window for revoking it. Claim rules for jobs in California sit at California unemployment benefits, with that state's notice list at California layoffs, and Colorado's are at Colorado unemployment benefits.

Your stock and equity

Phillips 66 restricted stock, under the company's Restricted Stock Program terms, vests three years after the grant for grades 18 and up and a third a year for grades 13 to 17. Those terms count a job loss as a layoff when it falls under the Phillips 66 Severance Pay Plan or a similar plan and any required release of liability is executed and not revoked.

A sourced history of Phillips 66 layoffs

• January to October 2026, Los Angeles refinery layoff notices

  Notices filed in January and February set 155 refinery jobs to end Dec. 1 and 122 on April 3, and Phillips 66 confirmed to Reuters that they concerned the idling. Five smaller notices followed between April and October.

• March 2026, Sentinel Transportation driver layoffs

  Sentinel Transportation, a wholly owned trucking subsidiary named in Phillips 66's 2025 annual filing, told California in March 30 notices that 126 workers would lose their jobs May 31. Its letter, as Abridged quoted it, cited a division moving to another entity within the parent company.

• October 2024, Hunt & Sons layoff notices

  Hunt & Sons LLC, on the subsidiary list in Phillips 66's 2025 Exhibit 21, filed Oct. 29 notices in California for layoffs effective Jan. 1, 2025, at sites from Redding to Gilroy.

• October 2024, Los Angeles refinery closing announced

  Phillips 66 said it would shut its Los Angeles-area refinery late the next year, and Reuters reported that chief executive Mark Lashier cited “market dynamics” for the decision.

• August 2023, finance and procurement cuts

  Phillips 66 told staff it would lay off 175 employees and 100 contractors in finance and procurement through 2024, according to Argus, keeping 155 more in different roles or a new enterprise services organization.

• January 2023, DCP Midstream layoffs in Denver

  DCP Midstream, run by Phillips 66 since the previous August, told Colorado in a Jan. 25 notice that 136 Denver jobs would end from March 31. A Phillips 66 spokesperson told the Denver Gazette some staff got new assignments or offers at other sites.

• September 2022, Santa Maria refinery closing set

  Phillips 66 announced it would shut its 78-employee Santa Maria refinery and, as CalCoastNews reported, offered those losing jobs work at other locations. It stopped running in early 2023, a step Phillips 66 ties in its annual report for 2025 to the San Francisco refinery's renewable conversion.

• November 2022, at least 1,100 job cuts detailed

  Phillips 66 was cutting at least 1,100 jobs by the end of 2022 to save about $1 billion a year. A spokesperson told CNN most cuts were made and communicated in late October, with attrition significantly lowering the number of employees impacted.

• February 2022, Alliance refinery layoffs begin

  Phillips 66 began laying off hourly workers at its Alliance refinery in Louisiana, shut ahead of Hurricane Ida and becoming a terminal. Sources told Reuters about half of its 450 hourly employees would be laid off that week, the rest staying through May 1.

What to do if you're laid off from Phillips 66

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Phillips 66's biggest hubs: California, Colorado. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
• Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what Phillips 66's hub states run: California, Colorado, and every other state is here.
• Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
• Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
• Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.