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ExxonMobil Baytown Refinery

ExxonMobil Refining & Supply Company (division of Exxon Mobil Corporation) · Exxon Mobil Corporation · Baytown, TX

Operating PADD3 IRS refinery no. R-74-TX-0115 jet fuel petrochemical feedstocks lubricants
Baytown Refinery from orbit (NASA ASTER)
Baytown Refinery from orbit (NASA ASTER) Photo: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team · Public domain · source
bpd crude capacity · EIA 2026
564,500
pipelines it injects into · +1 same-city tariff origins
4
delivery points reachable
118
terminals on those points
369
terminals reachable by barge
47
events on record
4

Capability

Crude distillation 564,500 bpd operable, 564,500 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) 204,500
Hydrocracking — distillate 27,488
Delayed coking 51,500
Fluid coking 39,800

Upgrading

Catalytic reforming — low pressure 122,915
Vacuum distillation 297,000 sd

Treating — meets sulfur specs

Hydrotreating — diesel 160,000 sd
Hydrotreating — kerosene & jet 134,400 sd
Hydrotreating — gasoline 213,600 sd
Hydrotreating — naphtha / reformer feed 158,000 sd
Hydrotreating — heavy gas oil 114,000 sd

Production capacity

Alkylates · 42,600 Lubricants · 33,000 Petcoke market · 22,750 Sulfur short tons day · 1,828

Crude slate

ExxonMobil says the refinery is supplied by pipeline crude primarily from Texas and Canada, supplemented by waterborne crude from the Persian Gulf, Africa, South America and Mexico. The Enercoast system that feeds the refinery from Webster lists WTI, Gulf of America medium sour and Canadian heavy among its grades.

Crude in & products out

From refinery research; each row links its source.
DirectionModeRoutePoint / originProductsSource
crude in pipeline Wink to Webster Pipeline
The pipeline's own site names Baytown as a destination. The Midland to Webster segment and a connection from Webster to Baytown began commercial service in October 2020.
Permian Basin, with origin points at Wink and Midland, TX crude source
crude in pipeline ExxonMobil Pipeline Webster to Baytown 36-inch crude line
ExxonMobil Pipeline Company replaced an existing 20-mile crude line between its Webster Station and the Baytown refinery with a 36-inch line. The operator says it supports delivery and takeaway crude service to and from the refinery and ties to Permian Basin production.
ExxonMobil Pipeline Company's Webster Station, Webster, TX crude source
crude in pipeline Enercoast Midstream 16-inch Webster to Baytown crude line
About 20 miles of 16-inch pipeline run from Webster Terminal to the Baytown refinery and the Seabrook export terminal. Enercoast is a Sentinel Midstream and ExxonMobil Pipeline Company venture. Webster Terminal receives crude from the 36-inch Wink to Webster pipeline, Genesis, Seaway and an ExxonMobil 24-inch line from Genoa Junction.
Webster Terminal, Webster, TX crude source
crude in pipeline Enercoast Midstream 20-inch Moore Rd Junction to Baytown crude line
About 10 miles of 20-inch pipeline run from Moore Rd Junction to the ExxonMobil Baytown Refinery area. Sentinel Midstream says the line can flow in both directions and is positioned to connect to third-party pipelines, which it does not name.
Moore Rd Junction crude source
crude in pipeline Seaway Pipeline
Indirect. Sentinel Midstream lists Seaway among the pipelines that deliver crude into Webster Terminal. Crude reaches the refinery from Webster on the Enercoast 16-inch line.
Delivers into Webster Terminal, Webster, TX, not into the refinery crude source
crude in marine Houston Ship Channel
ExxonMobil says pipeline crude from Texas and Canada is supplemented by crude from around the globe, including the Persian Gulf, Africa, South America and Mexico. The refinery's docks are on the Houston Ship Channel. Which berths take crude is not stated.
Waterborne crude from the Persian Gulf, Africa, South America and Mexico crude source
products out pipeline ExxonMobil Pipeline products lines, Baytown to Pasadena Station
This is the refinery's own outlet. ExxonMobil Pipeline Company says its Pasadena Station receives product from Baytown 3 Products Station, stores it if necessary, and distributes it to affiliates and locations in the area. ExxonMobil's 2024 fact sheet says 74 percent of refinery output leaves by pipeline.
Baytown 3 Products Station at the plant gasoline distillate jet fuel source
products out pipeline Magellan Pipeline
Magellan's joint tariff FERC 190.11.0 with ExxonMobil Pipeline Company routes product from Baytown to Pasadena on ExxonMobil Pipeline, then on Magellan from Pasadena Junction to Galena Park Junction and on to the destination. The tariff names the Baytown origin and ExxonMobil Pipeline, not the refinery in words.
Magellan Pasadena Junction, reached on ExxonMobil Pipeline Company's line from Baytown to Pasadena gasoline distillate jet fuel source
products out pipeline NuStar Houston 12-inch Pipeline
NuStar Logistics joint tariff Texas No. 113.8.0 names the ExxonMobil Refinery, Baytown, Texas as the start of the route. Product moves on ExxonMobil Pipeline to NuStar Baytown Junction, on NuStar to NuStar South Houston Junction, then on ExxonMobil Pipeline to ExxonMobil South Houston Terminal in Harris County (IRS T-76-TX-2812).
NuStar Baytown Junction, reached on ExxonMobil Pipeline Company's line from the refinery gasoline distillate source
products out pipeline Explorer Pipeline
Explorer's 2022 product movement sketch for Pasadena Station shows an origin meter labelled EXXON/MOBIL. ExxonMobil Pipeline Company says its Pasadena Station is fed from Baytown and distributes onward. No single document names the refinery as an Explorer origin, and nothing ties it to Explorer's Mont Belvieu origin.
Explorer's Pasadena Station, at the origin meter Explorer labels EXXON/MOBIL, reached through ExxonMobil Pipeline Company's Pasadena Station gasoline distillate source
products out marine Houston Ship Channel
ExxonMobil's 2024 fact sheet says 24 percent of refinery output leaves by water, and that gasoline, ULSD and jet fuel go to Latin America and Europe by waterborne shipment. NOAA describes a deepwater wharf and two deep-draft piers at the complex where petroleum products and petrochemicals are received and shipped.
ExxonMobil Baytown wharf and piers gasoline distillate jet fuel source
products out barge Gulf ICW / Houston Ship Channel
Standard barge distribution mode for HSC-sited refineries; not separately confirmed.
Baytown barge docks gasoline distillate inferred
products out rail Rail loading at the Baytown complex
ExxonMobil's 2024 fact sheet says 1 percent of refinery output leaves by rail. NOAA says the wharf and piers have railroad connections. The serving railroad and the products moved are not stated.
source
products out terminal Enterprise Morgan's Point Complex
No document found ties the refinery to this terminal. The IRS lists it as Morgan's Point Terminal, 1212 North Broadway, La Porte (T-76-TX-2872).
Morgan's Point, Baytown vicinity (Houston Ship Channel) petrochemical feedstocks source
products out pipeline Colonial Pipeline
Colonial's documented Texas origin is Pasadena/Houston; Baytown-area refineries are broadly understood industry suppliers into this point, but no single source names Baytown specifically as a Colonial shipper.
Pasadena/Houston, TX area (Colonial's primary Gulf Coast origin/injection point) gasoline distillate jet fuel source
products out pipeline TEPPCO / Enterprise TE Products
Enterprise's legacy TEPPCO products system serves the Houston/Beaumont corridor; not specifically confirmed for Baytown by name.
Houston/Beaumont area system distillate jet fuel inferred

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.

ExxonMobil Baytown refinery docks

Berth Max draft Max length Max beam Air draft
# 1 32 ft 630 ft 106 ft 162 ft
# 2 33 ft 720 ft 106 ft 162 ft
# 3 36.5 ft 810 ft 106 ft 162 ft
# 4 38 ft 810 ft 125 ft 162 ft
# 5 37 ft 810 ft 144 ft 162 ft
# 6 38 ft 820 ft 144 ft 162 ft
  • Spares and provisions launches allowed. No deliveries across the dock. No bunker or lube oil barges allowed. Maximum deep drafts posted are maximum project draft. Please contact Houston Operations for current draft.

Source: Moran Shipping Agencies port directory, read 2026-10-10.

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.
PipelineInjects atDelivery pointsTerminalsLowest ¢/bblMedian ¢/bbl
Colonial Pipeline
Houston (Pasadena, Cedar Bayou) per research
70 303 77.52 167.26
Explorer Pipeline
Mont Belvieu (Chambers County, TX) per research
22 34 96.30 296.40
Enterprise / TEPPCO
Baytown (Harris Co., TX) per research
15 22 195.73 361.33
Magellan Midstream
Baytown, TX (via ExxonMobil Pipeline)
9 9 93.21 660.41
NuStar Pipeline
NuStar Baytown Junction (from ExxonMobil Baytown refinery)
2 1 50.02 76.95

By water

From the refinery’s docks on Gulf ICW / Houston Ship Channel: 47 terminals supplied by barge on the same waterway or one it opens onto, in 10 rack markets. Inferred from terminal research — barge movements carry no public tariff.
WaterwayTerminalsNearest miFarthest mi
Houston Ship Channel10515
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway / Houston Ship Channel12828
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway / Galveston Bay13232
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway1364306
Victoria Barge Canal / Gulf Intracoastal Waterway1138138
Bayou Teche / Gulf Intracoastal Waterway2187188
Lower Mississippi River / Gulf Intracoastal Waterway1240240
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway / Port of Harlingen3292293
Mobile Bay / Gulf ICW12409419
Gulf ICW3459466
All 47 barge-reachable terminals
TerminalLocationSupplied by barge onMiles
Battleground Oil Specialty Terminal Company LLC (Bostco) La Porte, TX Houston Ship Channel (La Porte barge canal) 5
MVP Terminaling Pasadena, TX Houston Ship Channel 12
Pasadena Performance Products Pasadena, TX Houston Ship Channel 12
Enterprise Pasadena Products Terminal Pasadena, TX Houston Ship Channel 12
Marathon Petroleum Company LLC Pasadena, TX Houston Ship Channel 12
Phillips 66 Pipeline - Pasadena Pasadena, TX Houston Ship Channel 12
KM Pasadena Truck Facility Pasadena, TX Houston Ship Channel 13
Shell - Colex Terminal Pasadena, TX Houston Ship Channel 13
Crown Central Petroleum Corp Pasadena, TX Houston Ship Channel 14
GLOBAL COMPANIES, LLC Pasadena, TX Houston Ship Channel 15
OILTANKING TEXAS CITY LP Texas City, TX Gulf Intracoastal Waterway / Houston Ship Channel 28
Martin Operating Partnership, L.P. Galveston, TX Gulf Intracoastal Waterway / Galveston Bay 32
Port Neches Terminal Port Neches, TX Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (Matagorda Bay) 64
CITGO - Victoria Victoria, TX Victoria Barge Canal / Gulf Intracoastal Waterway 138
Martin Operating Partnership, L.P. Gueydan, LA Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (Gueydan / Vermilion Parish) 141
Martin Operating Partnership Aransas Pass, TX Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (Corpus Christi area) 172
Bay Ltd. Redfish Bay Terminal Aransas Pass, TX Gulf Intracoastal Waterway 185
Breaux Bridge Terminal Breau Bridge, LA Bayou Teche / Gulf Intracoastal Waterway 187
Anse La Butte Breau Bridge, LA Bayou Teche / Gulf Intracoastal Waterway 188
Five Star Fuels Baldwin, LA Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (Baldwin / Bayou Teche corridor) 206
Martin Operating Partnership, L.P. Amelia, LA Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (Amelia / Bayou Boeuf) 232
IMTT - Geismar Geismar, LA Lower Mississippi River / Gulf Intracoastal Waterway 240
Port Isabel Logistical Offshore Terminal Port Isabel, TX Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (Lower Laguna Madre) 290
Titan Fuel Terminals Harlingen, TX Gulf Intracoastal Waterway / Port of Harlingen 292
NuStar Logistics, L.P. - Harlingen, TX Harlingen, TX Gulf Intracoastal Waterway / Port of Harlingen 293
Port Harlingen Terminal Harlingen, TX Gulf Intracoastal Waterway / Port of Harlingen (Arroyo Colorado) 293
Titan Fuel Terminal Harlingen, TX Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (to Harlingen) 293
ABC Gulf Coast Terminal Brownsville, TX Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (to Brownsville) 301
CITGO - Brownsville Brownsville, TX Gulf Intracoastal Waterway 301
TransMontaigne - SouthWest Brownsville, TX Gulf Intracoastal Waterway 301
Brownsville Terminal Brownsville, TX Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (to Brownsville) 302
Bluewing One Brownsville, TX Gulf Intracoastal Waterway 306
Martin Energy Services LLC Mobile, AL Mobile Bay / Gulf ICW 409
Center Point Chickasaw LLC - Chicksaw North Terminal Mobile, AL Mobile Bay / Gulf ICW 419
Petroleum Fuel & Terminal Company Chickasaw, AL Mobile Bay / Gulf ICW 419
Barcliff LLC Mobile, AL Mobile Bay / Gulf ICW 419
Plains Marketing Terminal / Eott Energy Mobile, AL Mobile Bay / Gulf ICW 419
Dunhill Terminals Mobile, AL Mobile Bay / Gulf ICW 419
Zenith Energy US - Mobile Terminal Mobile, AL Mobile Bay / Gulf ICW 419
Radcliff/Economy Marine Services - Mobile North Mobile, AL Mobile Bay / Gulf ICW 419
Petroleum Fuel & Terminal Company Chickasaw Mobile, AL Mobile Bay / Gulf ICW 419
Midstream Fuel Services, Incorporated - Martin Company Mobile, AL Mobile Bay / Gulf ICW 419
Alabama Bulk Terminal LLC Mobile, AL Mobile Bay / Gulf ICW 419
Barcliff d/b/a/ Radcliff Economy Marine Services Mobile, AL Mobile Bay / Gulf ICW 419
Mocar Oil Pensacola, FL Gulf ICW 459
TransMontaigne - Pensacola Pensacola, FL Gulf ICW 465
Transmontaigne Partners L.p. - Pensacola Terminal Pensacola, FL Gulf ICW 466

Substitutes

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

Colonial Pipeline

Magellan Midstream

Events

Outages, fires, turnarounds, sales and closures — newest first.
  1. 2026-01-20 expansion

    ExxonMobil began construction on the Baytown Refinery Reconfiguration Project. Startup is scheduled for 2028, and the project will bring the site's Group III base oil capacity to about 8,000 b/d. source

  2. 2025-06 fire

    Fire in a polypropylene-material tower forced shutdown of the 2.6-billion-lb/yr BOP ethylene unit at the Baytown chemical complex; the adjacent 557,000 bpd Baytown Refinery itself kept operating. source

  3. 2024-03-17 outage

    Fired-heater tube rupture caused a hydrogen and naphtha release at the Baytown complex; CSB investigation found probable cause was creep damage plus short-term overheating (tube temperatures had exceeded the 1,200F operating limit days earlier). source

  4. 2021-12-23 fire

    A fire began shortly before 1 a.m. in a desulfurization unit and hospitalized four people, according to a report ExxonMobil filed with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. 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.