Delaware City Refinery (Delaware City Refining Company LLC)

Delaware City Refining Company LLC · PBF Energy Inc. / PBF Holding Company LLC · Delaware City, DE

Operating PADD1 IRS refinery no. R-51-DE-0036

Aerial view of the site Imagery: USDA, USGS The National Map (public domain)

bpd crude capacity · EIA 2026: 171,000
pipelines it injects into: 0
delivery points reachable: 0
terminals on those points: 0
events on record: 2

Capability

Crude distillation 171,000 bpd operable, 171,000 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)	73,800
Hydrocracking — gas oil	21,600
Fluid coking	49,100

Upgrading

Catalytic reforming — low pressure	38,700
Vacuum distillation	104,600 sd

Treating — meets sulfur specs

Hydrotreating — diesel	52,000 sd
Hydrotreating — kerosene & jet	16,500 sd
Hydrotreating — gasoline	33,000 sd
Hydrotreating — naphtha / reformer feed	58,800 sd

Production capacity · barrels per stream day

Alkylates · 12,500 b/sd Aromatics · 5,191 b/sd Hydrogen · 65 MMcf/d Isomerization isobutane · 6,000 b/sd Petcoke market · 13,620 b/sd Sulfur · 596 short tons/day

Crude slate

Complex, high-Nelson-complexity (13.6) refinery configured to run heavy, high-sulfur crude slates alongside lighter waterborne and rail-delivered grades (Western Canadian heavy and Bakken/Mid-Continent light) per PBF's own description.

Crude in & products out

Direction	Mode	Route	Point / origin	Products	Source
crude in	marine	PBF Delaware City marine terminal PBF says the refinery's Delaware River docks accept crude by ship or barge. The terminal has three berths. Berth 1 takes vessels to 38 ft draft, 923 ft length and 145 ft beam; berth 2 to 1,000 ft length and 157.5 ft beam; berth 3 to 600 ft length and 135 ft beam.	Waterborne crude imports and intercompany barge receipts	crude	source
crude in	rail	Delaware City crude-by-rail unloading facility PBF's own SEC filings describe rail unloading capability expanded to ~210,000 bpd total (130,000 bpd light + 80,000 bpd heavy) so PBF's East Coast refineries could source WTI-based Canadian and Mid-Continent crude; specific current-day rail carrier (Norfolk Southern vs. CSX) not independently confirmed in sources reviewed for this pass.	Western Canada (heavy) and Mid-Continent/Bakken (light) crude by rail	crude	source
products out	pipeline	23-mile interstate products pipeline (unnamed operator in source) PBF's SEC S-4 states the refinery has 'a 23-mile interstate pipeline used to distribute clean products,' but does not name the pipeline operator/system. Given regional infrastructure this plausibly interconnects with Buckeye Partners' Delaware Valley network (as the graph's 'Buckeye Pipeline' edges assume), but no source in this pass explicitly names Buckeye for Delaware City.	Delaware City to a regional products hub, likely interconnecting with the Buckeye/Sunoco Delaware Valley system	gasoline distillate	source
products out	barge	PBF Delaware City marine terminal PBF lists barges among the refinery's distribution modes. The refinery's marine terminal has three berths; berth 3 is limited to 600 ft length and 135 ft beam.	Refinery docks on the Delaware River	gasoline distillate	source
products out	marine	PBF Delaware City marine terminal PBF lists tankers among the refinery's distribution modes. Berth 1 takes vessels to 38 ft draft, 923 ft length and 145 ft beam; berth 2 to 1,000 ft length and 157.5 ft beam. The source does not say which berth handles products.	Refinery docks on the Delaware River	gasoline distillate	source
products out	truck rack	Delaware City Logistics Company truck rack (IRS T-51-DE-1600) The IRS terminal list carries T-51-DE-1600 under Delaware City Logistics Company at 4550 Wrangle Hill Road, Delaware City, DE 19706. That is the same street address given for the refinery's marine terminal. PBF lists truck among the refinery's distribution modes.	At the refinery, 4550 Wrangle Hill Road, Delaware City, DE	gasoline distillate	source

Docks

The docks at this facility and, where a ship agent or port publishes it, the largest vessel each berth takes. Channel conditions change; these figures are a guide, not clearance to sail.

PBF Delaware City marine terminal · crude in, products out

Berth	Max draft	Max length	Max beam	Air draft
1	38 ft	923 ft	145 ft	–
2	–	1000 ft	157.5 ft	–
3	–	600 ft	135 ft	–

Owned by Delaware City Refining Company LLC (PBF). Address 4550 Wrangle Hill Road, Delaware City, DE.
Crude arrives by ship or barge and products leave by barge and tanker. The source does not split cargoes by berth.
The source prints the berth 2 draft as '31.11 ft' and gives no draft for berth 3.
Maximum draft in the entrance channel to the berth varies and should be checked with the terminal. Docking is usually on the high water ebb tide.
Crude oil washing is accepted.

Source: Moran Shipping terminal page, read 2026-10-11.

Pipeline reach

No tariff origin point is linked to this refinery yet.

Substitutes

No other refinery shares a tariff system with this one in our data.

Events

2025-03-13 outage
A ~10-hour excess-emissions incident occurred after the carbon monoxide boiler on the fluid coking unit went down; Delaware DNREC issued a Notice of Violation. Resolved same day by midday. source
2024-02 turnaround
Major planned turnaround at Delaware City reduced Q1 2024 throughput; the FCC unit was restarted following the turnaround. 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.