Marathon Texas City Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Marathon
- Website: http://www.marathonpetroleum.com/
- List of Marathon Petroleum Refineries
- Location: Galveston Bay, Texas, USA
- Capacity: 3.6 million tons/annum & 80,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
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
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Other Information
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History
- 1931 - Refinery commissioned
- 1962 - Acquired by Marathon Oil Company (then The Ohio Oil Company) from Plymouth Oil Company
- 2006 - Refinery awarded ENERGY STAR
