ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Refinery

ExxonMobil Refining & Supply Company · ExxonMobil Corporation · Baton Rouge, LA

Operating PADD3 petrochemical feedstocks lubricants

ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Refinery seen from the top of the Louisiana State Capitol, March 5, 2017 Photo: WClarke · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

bpd crude capacity · EIA 2026: 523,500
pipelines it injects into: 3
delivery points reachable: 99
terminals on those points: 535
events on record: 1

Capability

Crude distillation 523,500 bpd operable, 523,500 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)	238,800
Hydrocracking — distillate	26,500
Delayed coking	121,400

Upgrading

Catalytic reforming — low pressure	78,700
Vacuum distillation	262,400 sd

Treating — meets sulfur specs

Hydrotreating — diesel	224,100 sd
Hydrotreating — gasoline	275,200 sd
Hydrotreating — naphtha / reformer feed	82,700 sd

Production capacity

Alkylates · 44,700 Asphalt road oil · 40,000 Lubricants · 16,500 Petcoke market · 31,525 Sulfur short tons day · 944

Crude slate

Historically diverse (waterborne imports plus domestic); increasingly includes Western Canadian heavy/Bakken crude via the reversed Capline delivering into the St. James hub area since 2022. Not independently confirmed for this specific refinery beyond the Capline operator's general destination list.

Crude in & products out

Direction	Mode	Route	Point / origin	Products	Source
crude in	pipeline	Capline Pipeline Capline was reversed and entered full southbound service Jan 1, 2022 (after interim service from Dec 18, 2021). It now carries Western Canadian heavy and Bakken crude south from Patoka to the St. James hub. The pipeline's operator (Marathon Pipe Line) explicitly names Baton Rouge and Garyville as destinations served from the reversed line's St. James-area deliveries.	Patoka, IL hub via the St. James, LA market hub	crude	source
crude in	pipeline	Genesis Energy pipeline from Port Hudson, LA terminal An 18-mile, 20-inch pipeline announced in 2013 connecting Genesis Energy's Port Hudson terminal to the Baton Rouge refinery; likely light/domestic crude, not independently re-verified beyond the Wikipedia summary.	Port Hudson, LA (Genesis Energy terminal)	crude	source
crude in	marine	Mississippi River dock(s) The refinery sits directly on the Mississippi River with dock infrastructure typical of Gulf Coast river refineries; plausible but not independently documented in the sources reviewed for this file. Treat as inferred, not confirmed.	waterborne imports / barge	crude	inferred
products out	pipeline	Plantation Pipeline Plantation Pipeline's documented origin is Baton Rouge, Louisiana, running to the Washington DC metro area -- consistent with a Baton Rouge refinery injecting into it.	Baton Rouge, LA	gasoline distillate	source
products out	pipeline	Colonial Pipeline Colonial Pipeline's own operations page states Bengal Pipeline (a Colonial/Shell Midstream JV) 'connects southern Louisiana refineries to the Colonial mainlines at its Baton Rouge origin point.' Consistent with a Baton Rouge refinery reaching Colonial via Bengal/Baton Rouge tankage rather than a direct mainline tie-in.	Baton Rouge origin (via the Bengal Pipeline joint venture, Colonial/Shell Midstream)	gasoline distillate jet fuel	source
products out	pipeline	Centennial Pipeline Research found Centennial's Louisiana segment runs Beaumont, TX to Longville, LA (western/central LA), then north toward Illinois -- not through Baton Rouge. No source found connecting Baton Rouge refinery product to Centennial; geography argues against a direct tie-in.	unclear -- see notes	gasoline distillate	source
products out	marine	Mississippi River / Gulf ICW barge dock Consistent with a river-front integrated refining/chemical complex; not separately documented beyond the site's known river-frontage.	refinery dock	gasoline distillate petrochemical feedstocks	inferred

Pipeline reach

Pipeline	Injects at	Delivery points	Terminals	Lowest ¢/bbl	Median ¢/bbl
Colonial Pipeline	Baton Rouge (E. Feliciana Parish) same city	68	380	47.33	129.52
Plantation Pipeline	Baton Rouge (East Baton Rouge Parish), incl. Dock Station and Bengal/Marathon proportional receipts same city	30	155	84.63	180.81
Bengal Pipeline	Exxon Mobil PL Junction, Baton Rouge Product Station (East Feliciana Parish) same city	1	0	27.90	27.90

Substitutes

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

Events

unknown expansion
Multi-year, ~$230 million crude unit modernization project (up to 600 contractors) reported by Wikipedia; exact start/completion dates not confirmed in the sources reviewed. 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.