Galveston Bay Refinery, also known as Marathon Texas City Refinery, is an oil refinery operated by Marathon Petroleum within the Texas City, Texas Industrial Complex on the edge of Galveston Bay. With a capacity 593,000 barrels per day,[1] it was the second-largest petroleum refinery in Texas and third-largest in the United States circa 2008,[2][3] and the eighth largest refinery in the world circa 2018.[4]
The refinery was established 1931 as Republic Oil refinery.[5]
In 2021, it was the greatest emitter of the carcinogen benzene into the United States environment, among all refineries in the country.[6]
References
- ↑ "Galveston Bay Refinery factsheet" (PDF). Marathon Petroleum. April 2021. Retrieved September 19, 2022.
- ↑ "U.S. Refineries* Operable Capacity". Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration. July 2008. Archived from the original on 2009-08-02.
- ↑ Regester, Michael; Larkin, Judy (2008). Risk Issues and Crisis Management in Public Relations: A Casebook of Best. Kogan Page. p. 83. ISBN 978-0-7494-2393-3.
- ↑ Kaiser et al. 2019, p. 193.
- ↑ Mitchell 2011, p. 7.
- ↑ Erin Douglas (May 12, 2022). "5 Texas refineries polluted above federal limit on cancer-causing benzene last year, report found". The Texas Tribune – via KTRK-TV.
Sources
- Kaiser, M.J.; de Klerk, A.; Gary, J.H.; Handwerk, G.E. (2019). Petroleum Refining: Technology, Economics, and Markets, Sixth Edition. CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4665-6302-5. Retrieved 2022-09-19.
- Mitchell, A.L. (2011). Texas City. Images of America. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-7970-2. Retrieved 2022-09-19.
Further reading
- "Galveston Bay Refinery emissions data". Electronic Greenhouse Gas Reporting Tool. United States Environmental Protection Agency.
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