Texas City (Marathon) refinery
Texas City was a small, medium complexity refinery located on Galveston Bay at the entrance to the Houston Ship Channel in Texas City, Texas in the US.
The refinery was 100% owned and operated by Marathon Petroleum.
In 2018 the refinery was combined with the former BP Texas City refinery to form the Galveston Bay refinery.
Refinery configuration
Major process units:
Atmospheric distillation - 90 kbpd
RCC - 59 kbpd
Reformer - 11 kbpd - Semiregen
Alkylation - 15 kbpd - HF acid
Aromatics extraction - 3 kbpd
Employees - 290
Location
1566 4th Ave S, Texas City, TX 77590 USA
Refinery history
1931 - Built by Republic Oil
1957 - Acquired by Plymouth Oil
1962 - Purchased by Marathon
1998 - Marathon and Ashland merged operations as Marathon Ashland
2005 - Marathon acquired full control
2011 - Downstream business separated as Marathon Petroleum
2018 - Combined with Galveston Bay refinery