Canton Refinery

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Summary Information

Brief Description

  • A small medium complexity refinery

Refining Units

  • Atmospheric Distillation
  • Catalytic cracking,
  • catalytic polymerization,
  • hydrotreating,
  • reforming,
  • alkylation,
  • sulfur recovery

Terminal Capacity

  • Crude Oil:
  • Refined Products:

Crude Supply

  • A wide range of crude oils from light sweet to heavy sour
  • 61 percent of its oil for refining comes from domestic sources such as Light Louisiana Sweet crude, 10 percent from Canada and 29 percent from "other foreign sources."
  • Marathon also process condensate from the nearby Utica Shale Oil and Gas Field, transporting it the Cornerstone NGL Pipeline

Products Produced

  • gasoline, distillates, asphalt, roofing flux, propane, refinery-grade propylene and slurry
  • Product distribution occurs through pipeline, transport truck and rail

Projects

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Other Information

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History

  • 1931 - Commissioned by Allegheny-Arrow Oil Company
  • 2006 - The Canton refinery was awarded the ENERGY STAR award
  • 2012 - Completion of a new truck rack capable of unloading 12,000 bpd of crude
  • 2014 - the company completed construction of a condensate splitter, which increased the refinery’s capacity to process condensate from the Utica shale region

Links

  1. Refinery Webpage
  2. Utica Oil May Yield Gasoline
  3. ENERGY STAR Plant Profile, Ohio Refining Division
  4. Marathon Petroleum Corporation and Harvest Pipeline Company Sign Letter of Intent for Truck-to-Barge Project on Ohio River