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Chevron El Segundo Refinery

Chevron U.S.A. Inc. · Chevron Corporation · El Segundo, CA

Operating PADD5 jet fuel
Chevron El Segundo oil refinery, 2007
Chevron El Segundo oil refinery, 2007 Photo: Pedro Szekely · CC0 (Public Domain) · source
bpd crude capacity · EIA 2026
285,000
pipelines it injects into
2
delivery points reachable
1
terminals on those points
5
events on record
5

Capability

Crude distillation 285,000 bpd operable, 285,000 operating (EIA-820, as of 2026-01-01). Downstream units below, barrels per calendar day.

Conversion — makes gasoline and diesel from heavier oil

Catalytic cracking (FCC) 72,000
Hydrocracking — gas oil 52,000
Delayed coking 72,000

Upgrading

Catalytic reforming — low pressure 48,000
Vacuum distillation 169,100 sd

Treating — meets sulfur specs

Hydrotreating — diesel 51,500 sd
Hydrotreating — kerosene & jet 41,500 sd
Hydrotreating — naphtha / reformer feed 62,500 sd
Hydrotreating — heavy gas oil 74,000 sd
Hydrotreating — other distillate 14,000 sd

Production capacity

Alkylates · 33,300 Hydrogen mmcfd · 74 Isomerization isobutane · 10,500 Isomerization isopentane isohexane · 22,300 Petcoke market · 30,000 Sulfur short tons day · 628

Crude slate

Mixed heavy/medium crude: ~20% California in-state, growing Venezuelan-crude use under consideration, new Santa Ynez (Sable) offshore California crude via pipeline from April 2026, plus tanker-delivered domestic/international barrels (including an unprecedented SPR cargo in May 2026).

Crude in & products out

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DirectionModeRoutePoint / originProductsSource
crude in pipeline In-state California crude pipeline(s), unnamed
Chevron sources about 20% of El Segundo's crude from in-state California production.		 California in-state production (~20% of supply) crude source
crude in pipeline Las Flores Pipeline (formerly Plains/Santa Ynez pipeline, operated by Sable Offshore Corp.)
New (2026) crude source: following a Trump administration Defense Production Act order overriding California regulators, Sable restarted the former Santa Ynez/Plains pipeline (idled since a 2015 spill) as the 'Las Flores pipeline.' Chevron announced it would begin running ~20,000 bpd of this crude at El Segundo starting April 2026.		 Sable Offshore Santa Ynez Unit, offshore Santa Barbara crude source
crude in marine Tanker deliveries (including a one-time Strategic Petroleum Reserve cargo)
About 50,000 bbl of the ~980,000 bbl SPR cargo (loaded at Louisiana, trans-shipped across Panama, reloaded onto the VLCC Pascagoula Voyager) was discharged at El Segundo in May 2026, amid Middle East-driven crude supply disruption; the bulk (460,000 bbl) went to Chevron Richmond.		 Various; May 2026 delivery of Bayou Choctaw Sweet crude from the US SPR (via Panama trans-shipment) was the first-ever SPR crude delivered to California crude source
products out pipeline LAX Jet Fuel Pipeline (LAX International Jet Fuel Cooperative System / LAIJFCS)
Chevron's own materials state El Segundo supplies 35-40% of the jet fuel consumed in Southern California / at LAX, historically via the LAIJFCS pipeline system serving the airport.		 LAX jet fuel source
products out pipeline Kinder Morgan SFPP (West Line)
SFPP's West Line explicitly moves products from the Los Angeles Basin (where El Segundo is located) to Colton/Imperial, California and Phoenix, Arizona -- a plausible but not refinery-specific outlet.		 Los Angeles Basin gasoline distillate source
products out truck rack Chevron Products Company (refinery truck rack)
Chevron's downstream marketing arm (Chevron Products Company) typically operates the truck rack at Chevron-owned refineries; not separately documented for El Segundo in sources reviewed.		 gasoline distillate inferred

Pipeline reach

Where this refinery’s product can go by published tariff route from the points it injects at — what an outage here would touch.
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PipelineInjects atDelivery pointsTerminalsLowest ¢/bblMedian ¢/bbl
Kinder Morgan SFPP
Sepulveda Junction per research
1 5 1.87 2.04

Substitutes

Other refineries injecting into the same pipelines — the supply that could backfill an outage here.

Events

Outages, fires, turnarounds, sales and closures — newest first.
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  1. 2026-05 other

    First-ever delivery of US Strategic Petroleum Reserve crude to California; 50,000 bbl discharged at El Segundo (460,000 bbl at Chevron Richmond) amid Middle East supply disruption. source

  2. 2026-04 expansion

    Chevron began running newly-restarted Sable Offshore Santa Ynez crude (via the Las Flores pipeline) at El Segundo, about 20,000 bpd. source

  3. 2026-03-19 turnaround

    Isomax unit restarted after the five-month shutdown from the October 2025 fire, restoring jet fuel and high-octane gasoline output. source

  4. 2025-10-02 fire

    Large explosion and fire in the jet fuel processing (Isomax/hydrocracking) unit; multiple units taken offline; refinery continued producing at diminished rates. Prompted a Los Angeles Times investigation into the cause. source

  5. 2025-05 outage

    Separate incident: refinery took units offline and worked to restart its 100,500-bpd crude distillation unit (56,000-bpd vacuum distillation unit remained down). source

Rates are pipeline line-haul transcribed from published FERC tariffs; every figure cites its tariff and item. Cost to serve (netback) adds origin spot price and destination fees. "Confirmed" links match a tariff delivery point to the facility; "same city" means the point is in the facility's city — plausible, not proof; "per research" means the facility's research profile names the pipeline as an outlet.