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  Location of the Garyville Refinery in Louisiana, United States | |
| Location |
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| Refinery details | |
| Owner | Marathon Petroleum Corporation |
| Opened | 1976 |
| Capacity | 597,000 barrels per day (94,900 m3/d) |
| No. of employees | 900 |
The Garyville Refinery is the 4th largest American oil refinery with a nameplate capacity of 597,000 barrels per day (94,900 m3/d).[1] The refinery is owned and operated by Marathon Petroleum Corporation. It is located in southeastern Louisiana between New Orleans and Baton Rouge on U.S. Route 61 in Garyville, Louisiana. The facility is the newest major grassroots refinery built in the United States, located on 3,500 acres of land adjacent to the Mississippi River. The refinery is on the former San Francisco Plantation property, which was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1974.
Construction began in 1973 by ECOL, Ltd. Construction was completed in 1976, and the refinery was purchased by Marathon Oil Company. Since then, the refinery has been expanded on multiple occasions, most recently with the $3.9 billion Garyville Major Expansion (GME) Project, completed in 2009. This, along with subsequent debottlenecking, increased capacity by 234,000 barrels per day (37,200 m3/d).
Garyville Refinery operations consist of crude distillation, hydrocracking, catalytic cracking, hydrotreating, catalytic reforming, alkylation, sulfur recovery, and coking. The facility primarily processes heavy sour crude oils to produce gasoline, diesel, asphalt, propylene, isobutane, propane, fuel-grade coke, and sulfur. Feedstocks are supplied via pipeline, truck, barge, rail, and ocean tanker.
The refinery employs 900 employees and 600 contract workers.[2]
Refinery Fire
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On August 25, 2023, a naphtha storage tank within the Garyville Refinery caught fire following a 13-hour-long naphtha leak. The fire later spread to an adjacent storage tank for diesel fuel. Fires at the facility burned for three days.[3]
St. John Parish issued an two-mile evacuation order on the first day of the fire, leading to the evacuation of 2,800 people from the area. The evacuation lasted less than 4 hours, despite the ongoing fires and pollution reported by residents.[3]
See also
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[edit]- ↑ "Refining crude oil - refinery rankings - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)". www.eia.gov. Retrieved 2025-02-17.
- ↑ Archived 2014-08-03 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 2013-2-12
- 1 2 Laughland, Oliver; Sneath, Sara; Craft, Will. "The huge US toxic fire shrouded in secrecy: 'I taste oil in my mouth'". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 July 2026.