Robinson refinery
Robinson is a large, medium complexity refinery located located in Robinson, Illinois in the US.
The refinery is 100% owned and operated by Marathon Petroleum.
The refinery primarily processes light sweet and sour crude oil.
Refinery configuration
Complexity: 9.4
Major process units:
Atmospheric distillation - 257 kbpd
Vacuum distillation - 124 kbpd
Solvent deasphalting - 56 kbpd
RCC - 90 kbpd
Hydrocracker - 103 kbpd
Reformer - 71 kbpd - Continuous
Naphtha hydrotreater - 58 kbpd
Kerosene hydrotreater - 96 kbpd
Distillate hydrotreater - 65 kbpd
VGO hydrotreater - 65 kbpd
FCC gasoline hydrotreater - 65 kbpd
Alkylation - 33 kbpd - HF acid
C4 Isomerization - 7 kbpd
C5/C6 Isomerization - 46 kbpd
Hydrogen production - 330 MMscfd
Base oil plant - 34 kpd
Employees - 710
Refinery history
1906 - Built by Lincoln Oil
1924 - Acquired by Ohio Oil (subsidiary of Marathon)
1998 - Marathon and Ashland merge operations as Marathon Ashland
1998 - Thermal cracker shut down (5 kbpd)
2005 - Marathon acquires full control
2005 - FCC gasoline hydrotreater added
2011 - Downstream business separated as Marathon Petroleum
2011 - Aromatics extraction added
2015 - Hydrocracker expansion (5 kbpd). $77MM project.
2016 - New crude unit (20 kbpd) added to process light crude. $140MM project.