Marathon Texas City Refinery

From A Barrel Full
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Summary Information

Brief Description

  • A small medium complexity refinery that processes sweet crude.
  • The refinery is one half of the Galveston Bay Refinery

Refining Units

  • Atmospheric Distillation
  • catalytic cracking,
  • alkylation,
  • reforming,
  • aromatics extraction,
  • sulfur recovery

Terminal Capacity

  • Crude Oil:
  • Refined Products:

Crude Supply

  • The refinery is processing sweet crude oil
  • The refinery is processing increasing amounts of oil from the Eagle Ford Shale Oil Field
  • Some crude is imported from West Africa

Products Produced

  • Gasoline, distillate, naphtha, light cycle oil, propane, propylene, benzene, toluene, xylene, sulfur, and various other chemicals.

Ongoing Projects

-

Other Information

-

History

  • 1931 - Refinery commissioned
  • 1962 - Acquired by Marathon Oil Company (then The Ohio Oil Company) from Plymouth Oil Company
  • 2006 - Refinery awarded ENERGY STAR

Links

  1. Refinery Webpage
  2. ENERGY STAR Plant Profile, Texas Refining Division