Martinez (Marathon) refinery
Also known as:
Golden Eagle refinery, Avon refinery
Marathon's Martinez refinery was a medium sized, high conversion refinery located in the northwestern part of the San Francisco Bay area in Martinez, California in the US.
The refinery was 100% owned and operated by Marathon.
The refinery processed heavy crude from domestic California production, Alaska and foreign imports.
The refinery was idled in April 2020 and is being converted to a products terminal and a renewable diesel plant processing industrial waste and used cooking oil.
Refinery configuration (at time of shutdown)
Complexity: 14.0
Major process units:
Atmospheric distillation - 170 kbpd
Vacuum distillation - 159 kbpd
Coker - 53 kbpd - Fluid coker, Exxon design.
FCC - 73 kbpd
Hydrocracker - 37 kbpd - Chevron Isocracker
Reformer - 26 kbpd - Continuous
Naphtha hydrotreater - 27 kbpd
Distillate hydrotreater - 60 kbpd
VGO hydrotreater - 70 kbpd
FCC gasoline hydrotreater - 43 kbpd
Alkylation - 16 kbpd
Hydrogen production - 87 MMscfd
Land - 2200 acres
Employees - 740
Refinery history
1913 - Built by Associated Oil
1937 - Acquired by Tidewater
1957 - Coker added
1963 - Hydrocracker added
1966 - Acquired by Phillips
1976 - Acquired by Tosco
2001 - Acquired by Valero
2002 - Acquired by Tesoro
2003 - FCC gasoline hydrotreater added
2009 - SR reformer shut down
2017 - Name changed to Andeavor
2018 - Andeavor merged into Marathon
2020 - Marathon idled the refinery
2020 - Marathon formed JV with Neste (investing $1B) to convert the plant to renewables