Texas City, Texas
Located approximately 10 miles north of Galveston, Texas, and approximately 30 miles south of Houston, Texas, the Texas City refinery employs approximately 260 Marathon employees. The facility processes more than 76,000 barrels per day of low-sulfur crude for the formulation of gasoline, LPG, fuel oil and aromatics solvents.
Marathon has committed to reduce the company-wide Energy Intensity Index (EII), a measure of energy efficiency, by 10 percent by 2012 over a 2002 baseline. The Texas City refinery alone will reduce EII 15 percent from the 2002 baseline by the year 2008.
The division will also reduce emissions of nitrogen oxide (NOx) by more than 600 tons per year from 2002 to 2009, through a series of projects that are part of the Houston-Galveston area's State Implementation Plan for NOx reduction.
History
The refinery has a rich tradition reaching back to the early 1900s. The first operating units of the Republic Oil Refining, one of the first major refiners to open operations in Texas City, were originally located on the site of today's refinery. In 1962, those units were acquired by Marathon.
Safety and Environmental Awards
- Received the Galveston Bay Foundation Petroleum Bay Business of the Year Award in 2006.
- Awarded both the 2005 and 2006 Texas Chemical Council's “Caring for Texas” Recognition.
- Received awards from the National Petroleum Refiners Association and National Safety Council for safety accomplishments.
