Process for producing distillate fuels and anode grade coke from vacuum resid

A process for upgrading residuum hydrocarbon feedstocks, comprising:

• contacting a residuum hydrocarbon and hydrogen with a hydroconversion catalyst in an residuum hydroconversion reactor system;
• recovering an effluent from the residuum hydroconversion reactor system;
• separating the effluent from the residuum hydroconversion reactor system to recover two or more hydrocarbon fractions including at least a vacuum residuum fraction and a heavy vacuum gas oil fraction;
• combining at least a portion of the heavy vacuum gas oil fraction and at least a portion of the vacuum residuum fraction to form a mixed heavy hydrocarbon fraction;
• feeding at least a portion of the mixed heavy hydrocarbon fraction to a coker;
• operating the coker at conditions to produce anode grade green coke and distillate hydrocarbons;
• recovering the distillate hydrocarbons from the coker;
• fractionating the distillate hydrocarbons recovered from the coker to recover three or more hydrocarbon fractions including a light distillates fraction, a heavy coker gas oil fraction, and a coker recycle fraction.