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LyondellBasell Houston Refinery (Houston Refining LP)

Houston Refining LP · LyondellBasell Industries N.V. · Houston, TX

Closed PADD3

263,776 bpd nameplate capacity. Believed to be the oldest refinery on the Houston Ship Channel, having begun operations in 1918. Permanently closed in Q1 2025 (closure process ran January 27 - approximately February 7, 2025); LyondellBasell laid off over 400 employees around the closure. THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FINDING FOR THE GRAPH: the facility is no longer operating, so all inbound/outbound flow edges below represent historical (pre-2025) connections, not live ones.

LyondellBasell Houston Refinery from the Houston Ship Channel
LyondellBasell Houston Refinery from the Houston Ship Channel Photo: Rifleman 82 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
bpd crude capacity · EIA
196,500
pipelines it injects into
2
delivery points reachable
46
terminals on those points
65
events on record
4

Capability

This site isn’t in EIA’s latest refinery capacity survey — usually a sign it has closed, converted, or isn’t a fuels refinery.

Crude slate

Not specifically documented in sources reviewed; historically processed a mix of Gulf Coast/Permian and imported crude typical of Houston Ship Channel refineries.

Crude in & products out

From refinery research; each row links its source.
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DirectionModeRoutePoint / originProductsSource
crude in pipeline Longhorn Pipeline
Longhorn's documented landing point is Magellan's East Houston Terminal, which is a receipt/redistribution hub said to provide pipeline transportation 'to every refinery in the Houston Ship Channel and Texas City' -- a plausible but not refinery-specific route to this site (while it was operating).		 Permian Basin via Magellan East Houston (MEH) terminal crude source
products out marine Houston Ship Channel
Refinery sits directly on the Houston Ship Channel.		 Houston Refining LP marine docks gasoline distillate jet fuel source
products out pipeline Explorer Pipeline
Standard Houston-area refined-products outlet; not separately confirmed by name for this refinery.		 Houston area gasoline distillate inferred
products out pipeline Kinder Morgan Pasadena products pipelines
Directly confirmed: Kinder Morgan's own terminal materials explicitly list 'LyondellBasell's 263,776 b/d Houston plant' among the refineries connected to its Pasadena, TX liquids terminal.		 Kinder Morgan Pasadena terminal gasoline distillate source

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
Explorer Pipeline
Pasadena, Houston
26 31 96.30 307.00
Magellan Midstream
East Houston, TX
Valero Refining-Texas Houston Refinery
20 34 44.33 256.57

Substitutes

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

Magellan Midstream

Events

Outages, fires, turnarounds, sales and closures — newest first.
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  1. 2025-02 closure

    Second CDU-coker train shut down; LyondellBasell/sources reported the shutdown of the Houston refinery complete. source

  2. 2025-01-27 closure

    Shutdown began with the first CDU/coker production train going offline. source

  3. 2025-01-24 closure

    LyondellBasell confirmed layoffs of over 400 employees as the Houston refinery prepared to shut down. source

  4. 2024-11 closure

    LyondellBasell announced it would permanently close the Houston refinery in Q1 2025. 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.