Garyville, Louisiana
The Garyville refinery, completed in 1976, was the last major grassroots refinery built in the U.S. Located on the Mississippi River, midway between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the refinery receives heavy sour crude oil delivered via the Mississippi River and the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP).
In the fourth quarter of 2009, Marathon completed an expansion project, which increased the Garyville refinery's capacity by 180,000 bpd. With completion of the expansion, the refinery can provide 19.5 million gallons of clean transportation fuels to the market each day. The refinery configuration is designed to provide maximum feedstock flexibility and leverage Marathon's most efficient and profitable downstream asset.
Refinery operations include crude fractionation, catalytic cracking, coking, hydrotreating, reforming, alkylation and sulfur recovery. The product slate is comprised primarily of gasoline and distillate fuels. The refinery has a capacity of 436,000 barrels per day.
The Garyville refinery has earned designation as a U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) STAR site.
Safety and Environmental Recognition
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) STAR facility since 1994, promoting effective worksite-based safety and health.
- Awarded the Louisiana Governor's Award for Pollution Prevention eight times, beginning in 1996.
- Accepted into the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Voluntary Early Reduction Program for Air Toxics under the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990. Garyville is the only U.S. refinery accepted into the program.
- Accepted into EPA’s National Waste Minimization Partnership Program.
