The majority of the refineries in the state of Texas are clustered near major sea ports along the Gulf Coast, predominately in the Houston area. The 10 refineries in the Houston metro process 2.6 million barrels of crude oil per calendar day – 45.4 percent of the state’s total production and 14.3 percent of the nation’s production. The entire Gulf Coast Region – including Corpus Christi, Port Arthur and Beaumont – accounts for 87.3 percent of the state’s total production and more than a quarter of production in the United States.
These coastal refineries have access to local Texas production, foreign imports, and oil produced offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as the U.S. government’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which operates two large storage facilities in Texas.
|
Rank* |
Company |
Barrels per Calendar Day |
City |
|
1 |
Motiva Enterprises LLC |
607,000 |
Port Arthur |
|
2 |
Marathon Petroleum Co LP |
585,000 |
Galveston Bay |
|
3 |
ExxonMobil Refining & Supply Co |
560,500 |
Baytown |
|
4 |
ExxonMobil Refining & Supply Co |
369,024 |
Beaumont |
|
5 |
Flint Hill Resources LP |
338,500 |
Corpus Christi |
|
6 |
Premcor Refining Group Inc |
335,000 |
Port Arthur |
|
7 |
Deer Park Refining Ltd Partnership |
318,000 |
Deer Park |
|
8 |
Valero Refining Co Texas LP |
290,000 |
Corpus Christi |
|
9 |
Phillips 66 Company |
265,000 |
Sweeny |
|
10 |
Houston Refining LP |
263,776 |
Houston |
|
11 |
Total Petrochemicals & Refining USA |
225,500 |
Port Arthur |
|
12 |
Valero Refining Co Texas LP |
225,000 |
Texas City |
|
13 |
Valero Refining Co Texas LP |
205,000 |
Houston |
|
14 |
Citgo Refining & Chemical Inc |
167,500 |
Corpus Christi |
|
15 |
Pasadena Refining Systems Inc |
112,229 |
Pasadena |
|
16 |
Kinder Morgan Crude & Condensate |
84,000 |
Galena Park |
|
17 |
Buckeye Texas Processing LLC |
60,000 |
Corpus Christi |
|
18 |
Magellan Terminal Holdings LP |
42,500 |
Corpus Christi |
|
19 |
Petromax Refining Co LLC |
25,000 |
Houston |
|
|
Local Operating Capacity - TOTAL |
5,078,529 |
- |
|
|
Local Capacity as % of U.S. Total |
27.4% |
- |
*Ranking is based on operating capacity.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Refinery Capacity Report, Data as of January 1, 2020 (Data Release date: June 22, 2020/ Next release date: June 2021)
The Gulf Coast accounts for 27.4 percent of U.S. crude oil production
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