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Hunt Refining Company - Tuscaloosa Refinery

Hunt Refining Company · Hunt Consolidated, Inc. (privately held Hunt family group, Dallas, TX) · Tuscaloosa, AL

Operating PADD3 asphalt petroleum coke
Aerial view of the site Imagery: USDA, USGS The National Map (public domain)
bpd crude capacity · EIA 2026
50,000
pipelines it injects into
1
delivery points reachable
60
terminals on those points
342
events on record
2

Capability

Crude distillation 50,000 bpd operable, 50,000 operating (EIA-820, as of 2026-01-01). Downstream units below, barrels per calendar day.

Conversion — makes gasoline and diesel from heavier oil

Hydrocracking — gas oil 22,000
Delayed coking 39,000

Upgrading

Catalytic reforming — low pressure 18,500
Vacuum distillation 25,000 sd

Treating — meets sulfur specs

Hydrotreating — kerosene & jet 3,500 sd
Hydrotreating — naphtha / reformer feed 23,500 sd
Hydrotreating — heavy gas oil 10,500 sd
Hydrotreating — other distillate 28,500 sd

Production capacity

Asphalt road oil · 26,000 Hydrogen mmcfd · 45 Isomerization isopentane isohexane · 9,000 Petcoke market · 8,500 Sulfur short tons day · 205

Crude slate

Mixed domestic and foreign crude blended at Melvin Station; broadened in 2017 to a wider crude slate, including heavier grades (rail access to Western Canadian crude added 2013).

Crude in & products out

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DirectionModeRoutePoint / originProductsSource
crude in pipeline Hunt Crude Oil Supply gathering system (Melvin Station hub)
Hunt Crude Oil Supply Company, based at Melvin Station near Gilbertown, AL, is the hub of 200+ miles of gathering pipeline and 335,000 bbl of storage supplying both foreign and domestic crude; crude is trucked or pipelined to 5 field stations, then pumped to Melvin Station and on to the Tuscaloosa refinery (avg. ~40,000 bpd).		 5 field stations in west Alabama and east Mississippi crude source
crude in marine Alabama Bulk Terminal (Mobile Bay)
Hunt purchased a 1.3 million-barrel storage terminal on Mobile Bay in 1991 (renamed Alabama Bulk Terminal) specifically to secure storage for imported crude oils feeding the refinery system.		 Imported crude oil crude source
crude in rail Heated rail car unloading
Added 2013 to allow the refinery to access heavy Western Canadian crude by rail.		 Western Canadian crude crude source
products out pipeline Colonial Pipeline
Regular gasoline and Grade 62 diesel are marketed to the northeastern U.S. via Colonial Pipeline using Hunt's connection at Moundville, AL (pipeline connection added 1984).		 Moundville, Alabama gasoline distillate source
products out truck rack On-site truck rack
Hunt markets light-oil products from Tuscaloosa via truck, barge and pipeline.		 Tuscaloosa refinery gasoline distillate asphalt source
products out barge Black Warrior River dock
Site was chosen in the 1940s specifically for river, rail and road access; asphalt and light oils also move by barge.		 Tuscaloosa refinery asphalt 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
Colonial Pipeline
Moundville (Hale County) per research
60 342 41.23 106.55

Substitutes

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

Colonial Pipeline

Events

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  1. 2025 other

    Hunt Refining Company received an EPA small-refinery exemption from Renewable Fuel Standard obligations, which the company said helps it continue supplying fuel and asphalt. source

  2. 2024-11-25 expansion

    Hunt Refining announced a ~$57M expansion including a new ACDC (crude unit) tower that converts more of each crude barrel to liquid product instead of petcoke, plus a new storage tank supporting asphalt-shingle ultra-flux material. 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.