Kern Oil & Refining Co. (dba Kern Energy)
Kern Oil & Refining Co. · Casey Co. (privately held, family-owned California company) · Bakersfield, CA
- bpd crude capacity · EIA 2026
- 26,000
- pipelines it injects into
- 0
- delivery points reachable
- 0
- terminals on those points
- 0
- events on record
- 2
Capability
Crude distillation 26,000 bpd operable, 26,000 operating (EIA-820, as of 2026-01-01). Downstream units below, barrels per calendar day.
Upgrading
| Catalytic reforming — low pressure | 2,438 |
| Catalytic reforming — high pressure | 3,219 |
Treating — meets sulfur specs
| Hydrotreating — naphtha / reformer feed | 5,000 sd |
| Hydrotreating — other distillate | 9,000 sd |
Production capacity · barrels per stream day
Crude slate
Heavy sour San Joaquin Valley / Kern County crude oil. Tallow is co-processed in the kerosene hydrotreater with crude unit distillate and transmix distillate to make renewable diesel (CARB pathway report, 2020).
Crude in & products out
| Direction | Mode | Route | Point / origin | Products | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| crude in | pipeline | Kern Energy crude pipeline Kern Energy's 2023 pipeline awareness sheet says it operates a single intrastate pipeline to deliver crude oil to the refinery, 6 to 8 inch, in Kern County only. CalEPA's 2024 facility log says the plant receives raw material mainly by pipeline. A 2007 Energy Intelligence report put the line at about 18 miles. |
Kern County, California. The upstream end of the line is not named. | crude | source |
| crude in | truck | Truck receipts at the refinery (secondary) CalEPA's 2024 facility log says the refinery primarily receives raw material by pipeline but can also receive it by truck. |
Not stated | crude | source |
| products out | truck rack | Kern Oil & Refining Co. refinery truck rack, Bakersfield (IRS terminal T-77-CA-4655) The IRS terminal list carries Kern Oil & Refining Co. as terminal T-77-CA-4655 at the refinery address, 7724 East Panama Lane. CARB's 2020 pathway report describes an onsite loadout terminal, says all fuel is sold locally in the San Joaquin Valley and that none is shipped to blending terminals. Kern reports a daily average of 420,000 gallons of CARB gasoline and the same of CARB ultra-low sulfur diesel, with 10% ethanol in gasoline and up to 5% biodiesel and renewable diesel in diesel. |
gasoline distillate renewable diesel | source | |
| products out | rail | Rail car connections at the refinery CalEPA's 2024 facility log records an EPA inspection that observed rail car hose connections at the plant. What moves by rail and the serving railroad are not stated. |
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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
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2025-02
expansion
Kern Energy announced a hydrogen storage, utilization and decarbonization initiative at the Bakersfield refinery, adding a Claire Technologies H2 storage/release system alongside seven HyAxiom H2-powered fuel cells. source
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2020-03-19
regulatory
A U.S. Magistrate Judge entered a joint settlement between Kern and EPA, the Department of Justice and the San Joaquin Valley air district to resolve alleged violations at the refinery. The company paid a $500,000 penalty. 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.