Galveston Bay Refinery

Summary Information

• Ownership: Marathon Petroleum
• Website: https://www.marathonpetroleum.com/
  • List of Marathon Petroleum Refineries
• Location: Galveston Bay, Texas, USA
• Capacity: 3.6 million tons/annum & 585,000 bbl/day
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Brief Description

• A world class refining complex with a crude oil refining capacity of 585,000 barrels per calendar day (bpcd), it was created by the merger of Marathon Texas City Refinery and Marathon Texas City Refinery II
• It is one of the largest refineries in the USA

Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation
• catalytic cracking,
• alkylation,
• reforming,
• aromatics extraction,
• sulfur recovery
• An on-site co-generation facility currently has 1,055 megawatts of electrical production capacity and can produce 4.3 million pounds of steam per hour

Products Produced

• gasoline, distillates, aromatics, heavy fuel oil, dry gas, fuel-grade coke, refinery-grade propylene, chemical-grade propylene and sulfur
• Products are distributed via pipeline, barge, transport truck, rail and ocean tanker.

History

• 1931 - Texas City Refinery commissioned
• 1962 - Texas City Refinery Acquired by Marathon Oil Company (then The Ohio Oil Company) from Plymouth Oil Company
• 2005 - A major explosion killed 15 workers at BP's Texas City refinery and injured many more.
• 2012 - Marathon Petroleum agreed to acquire BP's Texas City refinery
• 2013 - Marathon completes the acquisition from BP
• 2018 - The refineries are merged into one unit