Top US Refineries: Energy Information Administration

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U.S. Refineries Operable Atmospheric Crude Oil Distillation Capacity
(Barrels per Calendar Day)
as of January 1, 2006

Rank	COMPANY NAME	STATE	SITE	Barrels per Calendar Day
1	EXXONMOBIL REFINING & SUPPLY CO	Texas	BAYTOWN	562,500
2	EXXONMOBIL REFINING & SUPPLY CO	Louisiana	BATON ROUGE	501,000
3	BP PRODUCTS NORTH AMERICA INC	Texas	TEXAS CITY	437,000
4	CITGO PETROLEUM CORP	Louisiana	LAKE CHARLES	429,500
5	BP PRODUCTS NORTH AMERICA INC	Indiana	WHITING	410,000
6	EXXONMOBIL REFINING & SUPPLY CO	Texas	BEAUMONT	348,500
7	SUNOCO INC (R&M)	Pennsylvania	PHILADELPHIA	335,000
8	DEER PARK REFINING LTD PARTNERSHIP	Texas	DEER PARK	333,700
9	CHEVRON USA INC	Mississippi	PASCAGOULA	330,000
10	CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY	Illinois	WOOD RIVER	306,000
11	Flint Hills Resources LP	Texas	CORPUS CHRISTI	288,126
12	Motiva Enterprises LLC	Texas	PORT ARTHUR	285,000
13	Flint Hills Resources LP	Minnesota	SAINT PAUL	279,300
14	LYONDELL CITGO REFINING CO LTD	Texas	HOUSTON	270,200
15	BP West Coast Products LLC	California	LOS ANGELES	260,000
16	CHEVRON USA INC	California	EL SEGUNDO	260,000
17	PREMCOR REFINING GROUP INC	Texas	PORT ARTHUR	260,000
18	CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY	Louisiana	BELLE CHASSE	247,000
19	CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY	Texas	SWEENY	247,000
20	MARATHON PETROLEUM CO LLC	Louisiana	GARYVILLE	245,000
21	CHEVRON USA INC	California	RICHMOND	242,901
22	CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY	Louisiana	WESTLAKE	239,400
23	EXXONMOBIL REFINING & SUPPLY CO	Illinois	JOLIET	238,500
24	CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY	New Jersey	LINDEN	238,000
25	Motiva Enterprises LLC	Louisiana	CONVENT	235,000
26	TOTAL PETROCHEMICALS INC	Texas	PORT ARTHUR	232,000
27	Motiva Enterprises LLC	Louisiana	NORCO	226,500
28	BP West Coast Products LLC	Washington	FERNDALE (CHERRY POINT)	225,000
29	MARATHON PETROLEUM CO LLC	Kentucky	CATLETTSBURG	222,000
30	VALERO REFINING CO TEXAS	Texas	TEXAS CITY	213,750
31	FLINT HILLS RESOURCES ALASKA LLC	Alaska	NORTH POLE	210,000
32	CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY	Oklahoma	PONCA CITY	194,000
33	MARATHON PETROLEUM CO LLC	Illinois	ROBINSON	192,000
34	Chalmette Refining LLC	Louisiana	CHALMETTE	188,160
35	VALERO REFINING NEW ORLEANS LLC	Louisiana	NORCO	185,003
36	CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY	Pennsylvania	TRAINER	185,000
37	PREMCOR REFINING GROUP INC	Delaware	DELAWARE CITY	181,500
38	PREMCOR REFINING GROUP INC	Tennessee	MEMPHIS	180,000
39	SUNOCO INC	Pennsylvania	MARCUS HOOK	175,000
40	PDV Midwest Refining LLC	Illinois	LEMONT (CHICAGO)	167,000
41	TESORO REFINING & MARKETING CO	California	MARTINEZ	166,000
42	SUNOCO INC	Ohio	TOLEDO	160,000
43	VALERO REFINING CO NEW JERSEY	New Jersey	PAULSBORO	160,000
44	VALERO ENERGY CORPORATION	Texas	SUNRAY	158,327
45	CITGO REFINING & CHEMICAL INC	Texas	CORPUS CHRISTI	156,000
46	Shell Oil Products US	California	MARTINEZ	155,600
47	EXXONMOBIL REFINING & SUPPLY CO	California	TORRANCE	149,500
48	PREMCOR REFINING GROUP INC	Ohio	LIMA	146,900
49	CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY	Texas	BORGER	146,000
50	Shell Oil Products US	Washington	ANACORTES	145,000
51	SUNOCO INC	New Jersey	WESTVILLE	145,000
52	VALERO REFINING CO CALIFORNIA	California	BENICIA	144,000
53	VALERO REFINING CO TEXAS	Texas	CORPUS CHRISTI	142,000
54	CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY	California	WILMINGTON	139,000
55	BP PRODUCTS NORTH AMERICA INC	Ohio	TOLEDO	131,000
56	MURPHY OIL USA INC	Louisiana	MERAUX	120,000
57	Tesoro West Coast	Washington	ANACORTES	120,000
58	WESTERN REFINING COMPANY LP	Texas	EL PASO	116,000
59	COFFEYVILLE RESOURCES LLC	Kansas	COFFEYVILLE	112,000
60	FRONTIER EL DORADO REFINING CO	Kansas	EL DORADO	106,000
61	MARATHON PETROLEUM CO LLC	Michigan	DETROIT	100,000
62	PASADENA REFINING SYSTEMS INC	Texas	PASADENA	100,000
63	Shell Oil Products US	California	WILMINGTON	98,500
64	CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY	Washington	FERNDALE	96,000
65	TESORO HAWAII CORP	Hawaii	KAPOLEI	93,500
66	VALERO ENERGY CORPORATION	Texas	THREE RIVERS	90,000
67	SUNOCO INC	Oklahoma	TULSA	85,000
68	VALERO REFINING CO OKLAHOMA	Oklahoma	ARDMORE	83,640
69	VALERO REFINING CO TEXAS	Texas	HOUSTON	83,000
70	NCRA	Kansas	MCPHERSON	81,200
71	ULTRAMAR INC	California	WILMINGTON	80,887
72	CHEVRON USA INC	New Jersey	PERTH AMBOY	80,000
73	Shell Chem LP	Alabama	SARALAND	80,000
74	VALERO REFINING CO LOUISIANA	Louisiana	KROTZ SPRINGS	80,000
75	CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY	California	RODEO	76,000
76	NAVAJO REFINING CO	New Mexico	ARTESIA	75,000
77	MARATHON PETROLEUM CO LLC	Ohio	CANTON	73,000
78	MARATHON PETROLEUM CO LLC	Texas	TEXAS CITY	72,000
79	TESORO PETROLEUM CORP	Alaska	KENAI	72,000
80	SINCLAIR OIL CORP	Oklahoma	TULSA	70,300
81	LION OIL CO	Arkansas	EL DORADO	70,000
82	MARATHON PETROLEUM CO LLC	Minnesota	SAINT PAUL PARK	70,000
83	ALON USA ENERGY INC	Texas	BIG SPRING	67,000
84	BIG WEST OF CALIFORNIA	California	BAKERSFIELD	66,000
85	SINCLAIR OIL CORP	Wyoming	SINCLAIR	66,000
86	UNITED REFINING CO	Pennsylvania	WARREN	65,000
87	SUNCOR ENERGY (USA) INC	Colorado	COMMERCE CITY	62,000
88	EXXONMOBIL REFINING & SUPPLY CO	Montana	BILLINGS	60,000
89	GIANT YORKTOWN REFINING	Virginia	YORKTOWN	58,600
90	CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY	Montana	BILLINGS	58,000
91	DELEK REFINING LTD	Texas	TYLER	58,000
92	Tesoro West Coast	North Dakota	MANDAN	58,000
93	Tesoro West Coast	Utah	SALT LAKE CITY	58,000
94	PLACID REFINING CO	Louisiana	PORT ALLEN	56,000
95	Cenex Harvest States Coop	Montana	LAUREL	55,000
96	Shell Chem LP	Louisiana	SAINT ROSE	55,000
97	CHEVRON USA INC	Hawaii	HONOLULU	54,000
98	WYNNEWOOD REFINING CO	Oklahoma	WYNNEWOOD	54,000
99	PARAMOUNT PETROLEUM CORPORATION	California	PARAMOUNT	50,000
100	PETRO STAR INC	Alaska	VALDEZ	48,000
101	FRONTIER REFINING INC	Wyoming	CHEYENNE	47,000
102	CHEVRON USA INC	Utah	SALT LAKE CITY	45,000
103	CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY	California	ARROYO GRANDE	44,200
104	CALUMET SHREVEPORT LLC	Louisiana	SHREVEPORT	42,000
105	US OIL & REFINING CO	Washington	TACOMA	37,850
106	HUNT REFINING CO	Alabama	TUSCALOOSA	34,500
107	MURPHY OIL USA INC	Wisconsin	SUPERIOR	34,300
108	CITGO ASPHALT REFINING CO	New Jersey	PAULSBORO	32,000
109	SUNCOR ENERGY(USA)INC	Colorado	DENVER	32,000
110	CALCASIEU REFINING CO	Louisiana	LAKE CHARLES	30,000
111	BIG WEST OIL CO	Utah	NORTH SALT LAKE	29,400
112	CITGO ASPHALT REFINING CO	Georgia	SAVANNAH	28,000
113	EDGINGTON OIL CO INC	California	LONG BEACH	26,000
114	KERN OIL & REFINING CO	California	BAKERSFIELD	26,000
115	HOLLY CORP REFINING & MARKETING	Utah	WOODS CROSS	24,700
116	LITTLE AMERICA REFINING CO	Wyoming	EVANSVILLE (CASPER)	24,500
117	COUNTRYMARK COOPERATIVE INC	Indiana	MOUNT VERNON	23,000
118	ERGON REFINING INC	Mississippi	VICKSBURG	23,000
119	GIANT REFINING CO	New Mexico	GALLUP	20,800
120	ERGON WEST VIRGINIA INC	West Virginia	NEWELL (CONGO)	20,000
121	PETRO STAR INC	Alaska	NORTH POLE	17,000
122	GIANT INDUSTRIES INC	New Mexico	BLOOMFIELD	16,800
123	GULF ATLANTIC OPERATIONS LLC	Alabama	MOBILE	16,700
124	SAN JOAQUIN REFINING CO INC	California	BAKERSFIELD	15,000
125	CONOCOPHILLIPS ALASKA INC	Alaska	KUPARUK	14,000
126	CALUMET LUBRICANTS CO LP	Louisiana	COTTON VALLEY	13,020
127	BP EXPLORATION ALASKA INC	Alaska	PRUDHOE BAY	12,500
128	WYOMING REFINING CO	Wyoming	NEWCASTLE	12,500
129	AGE REFINING INC	Texas	SAN ANTONIO	12,200
130	HUNT SOUTHLAND REFINING CO	Mississippi	SANDERSVILLE	11,000
131	Silver Eagle Refining	Utah	WOODS CROSS	10,250
132	AMERICAN REFINING GROUP INC	Pennsylvania	BRADFORD	10,000
133	Greka Energy	California	SANTA MARIA	9,500
134	LUNDAY THAGARD CO	California	SOUTH GATE	8,500
135	CALUMET LUBRICANTS CO LP	Louisiana	PRINCETON	8,300
136	MONTANA REFINING CO	Montana	GREAT FALLS	8,200
137	CROSS OIL REFINING & MARKETING INC	Arkansas	SMACKOVER	7,200
138	VALERO REFINING CO CALIFORNIA	California	WILMINGTON	6,200
139	HUNT SOUTHLAND REFINING CO	Mississippi	LUMBERTON	5,800
140	SOMERSET REFINERY INC	Kentucky	SOMERSET	5,500
141	GOODWAY REFINING LLC	Alabama	ATMORE	4,100
142	Silver Eagle Refining	Wyoming	EVANSTON	3,000
143	TENBY INC	California	OXNARD	2,800
144	FORELAND REFINING CORP	Nevada	EAGLE SPRINGS	2,000

Source: Refinery Capacity Data by individual refinery as of January 1, 2006

[capt.P]

No to mention a need for having the majority of our refining capacity not to be located within walking distance of each other next time a hurricane hits.

[capt.P]

Feeder stocks require refining as well. Medium weight stocks like Vacuum Gas Oil are moving like crazy- my own ship is backloading (filling up and discharging at the same ports) VGO and residual stocks at a record pace...

Now, here’s another wrench in the economic gears: time to delivery of shipborne finished and feedstock products is declining as oil transport companies convert from owning self-propelled tankships (avg 15.5kt in up to force 7 seas, and 8-10kt in up to force 9) to smaller Articulated Tug-Barge units (avg spd 8 kt in up to force 5 seas, 2 kt or less above that) because of unfriendly economic policies in the US government.

My own ship, which is barely medium sized, can carry enough gasoline to power every personal car in the US for a day. The cost to US consumers for transshipment for that gasoline averages 1 to 1.5 cents/gal at the pump. It would take 6 average seagoing Tug/Barge units to move the same product, but, even under idyllic conditions, the product can only be moved at 60% of the speed over the water, and only in absolutely perfect weather conditions, which is pretty much never on the East Coast.
Unfortunately, we have President Bush, Sr to thank for that, proving yet again that even good people make mistakes. If you look deeper, you can see the effect that this could have on local supplies, brokerage houses and spot markets, and the effect this has had on stability of pricing at the pump.

[Captain Rhino]

Per gallon amount allocated to crude transportation, refining, pipeline distribution, road distribution, retail marketing (no profit) on my gallon of regular unleaded yesterday: $ 0.83

You are a key player in the most interesting part of the price equation: turning the crude into something useful and getting it to market. And all of this activity was done for about 27% of the final price of a gallon of gas. Yet these costs are service costs and not commodity costs and they don't have the same elasticity to respond up and especially down to market forces.

So you look for more efficient ways to get the work done.

This is really curious.

What is setting up the dynamic between the self-propelled tank ships and the articulated tug-barge units? Since the economic principle of efficiency of scale hasn't been repealed (as far as I know), what is the economic rationale driving devolution from a more capable and efficient ship to less capable multiple units?

Is it terminal onload/offload cost efficiency? It can't possibly be transit efficiency, can it?

What is the operating technique that allows use of less efficient vessels but makes possible a decline in the "time to delivery of shipborne finished and feedstock products?"

What is the U.S. Government economic policy causing this effect?

[Osage Orange]

We are importing refined gasoline.....as we type.

[nicollo]

Maine should have one of the largest refineries. In 1972, plans were made and money was spent in preparation for a refinery and supertanker port at Eastport.

Ten years of lawsuits, EPA interventions, environmental scares, Bald Eagle counts, a studid Canadian re-invention of the Treaty of Ghent, and by 1983 the builders decided that it just wasn’t worth the billion dollars the project now represented.

New England would be so much better off for this project. We’ll call it a self-inflicted wound.

[golas1964]

The above equals a total refining of 17,338,814 barrels per day as of 1 Jan 06

We use something like 20,000,000 barrels a day. The oil companies actually have to import refined product now because of the shortfall in domestic refining capacity. And the overseas refineries aren't designed to refine the 40+ different blends of U.S. gasoline.

[capt.P]

All excellent questions, sir. I doubt that we’ll agree 100% on everything here, but I’ll do my best to denote where my own bias leads me.

1) Economies of scale in shipping are limited by physics, to start... a 1,000 ft ship has a service life of 10 years on average wracking and hogging (bending and stretching)stresses from everyday seas are incredible). A 700-foot ship can be designed for 20 years, and some can make 25, in theory. Larger ships can’t get into shallow US ports, plus, many docks aren’t set up for large ships.

2) Ships are incredibly expensive. The Jones Act requires that all commercial vessels working between US ports be american built and crewed. This is done to protect US shipyards and to maintain a supply of US civilian mariners. This is admittedly an inefficiency. The replacement cost of my ship is 130 million US- if it were Korean built, it’d be 30 million US (2 articulated tug/barge units could be built in the US to carry the same amount of cargo for $50 million each). The original idea of the Jones Act was to keep shipyards trained, efficient and experienced in advanced shipbuilding during peace and wartime. The practical rationale today is to keep foreign interests from controlling our ports. Since 90% of all commodities in the US travel by ship, this is sensitive subject.

3) Staffing- My ship requires 21 people to be safely operated (4 deck officers, 4 engineers, 9 unlicensed sailors and oilers, a steward, 2 cook’s helpers, etc.) Everyone on board has undergone an extensive background check, and is a citizen- we are allowed 3 green-card holders at a time, so long as they can pass the check. The jobs pay a living wage right down to the guys in the galley, who make about 38k/year w/ benefits for two 120-day hitches each year. Between help, insurance, and expenses it costs about $32,000 a day to run my ship before fuel expenses (65 tons/day at $150/ton).
A large tug/barge unit that has a crew of 8-9 guys, but can move say 1/2 of the oil that we can, can do that at about 30-35% of the cost per day, but the cost savings must be offset by slower transit times and reduced ability to operate in inclement weather. Unfortunately, all I have are soft numbers here, which are spouted industry-wide, but I can’t confirm ‘em, but you can see (I hope) that each has its’ cost...

Hope this helps- I had to cut it short, as we’re sailing in a few hours.

[Captain Rhino]

Your answers help me understand the problems you are facing.

Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to answer my questions.

Calm seas and a safe harbor to you, sir.