Cenovus Lima Refinery

Lima Refining Company · Cenovus Energy Inc. · Lima, OH

Operating PADD2 jet fuel petrochemical feedstocks delayed coker products

Aerial view of the site Imagery: USDA, USGS The National Map (public domain)

bpd crude capacity · EIA 2026: 183,000
pipelines it injects into: 4
delivery points reachable: 48
terminals on those points: 58
events on record: 0

Capability

Crude distillation 183,000 bpd operable, 183,000 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)	44,394
Hydrocracking — gas oil	25,480
Delayed coking	22,150

Upgrading

Catalytic reforming — high pressure	53,900
Vacuum distillation	57,000 sd

Treating — meets sulfur specs

Hydrotreating — diesel	38,700 sd
Hydrotreating — kerosene & jet	27,000 sd
Hydrotreating — gasoline	35,000 sd
Hydrotreating — naphtha / reformer feed	63,000 sd

Production capacity

Aromatics · 9,200 Isomerization isobutane · 4,500 Isomerization isopentane isohexane · 18,700 Petcoke market · 6,300 Sulfur short tons day · 269

Crude slate

Both light sweet crude oil and heavy crude oil feedstock sourced from the U.S. and Canada, including Canadian synthetic crude oil such as HSB produced by the Lloydminster Upgrader; historically approximately 80% domestic.

Crude in & products out

Direction	Mode	Route	Point / origin	Products	Source
crude in	pipeline	Mid-Valley Pipeline Cenovus's 2022 Annual Information Form (SEC filing) states feedstocks are received via the Mid-Valley and Marathon Pipelines.	Gulf Coast / Midwest (Sunoco/Energy Transfer legacy system)	crude	source
crude in	pipeline	Marathon Pipe Line Named alongside Mid-Valley as a crude feedstock delivery route in Cenovus's own SEC filing.	regional Marathon-owned crude network	crude	source
products out	pipeline	Buckeye Pipeline Cenovus's SEC filing states refined products are transported via the Buckeye, Inland, and Energy Transfer Partners pipeline systems to markets in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania and southern Michigan.	Lima refinery (Lima origin)	gasoline distillate	source
products out	pipeline	Inland Corporation pipeline Directly named in the same Cenovus SEC filing.	Lima refinery	gasoline distillate	source
products out	pipeline	Energy Transfer Partners pipeline system (TEPPCO/Sunoco Logistics lineage) Named alongside Buckeye and Inland in Cenovus's SEC filing as an outbound refined-products route, not as an inbound crude/feedstock route.	Lima refinery	gasoline distillate jet fuel	source
products out	rail	railcar distribution Cenovus filing confirms refined products also move to market by railcar.	Lima refinery	gasoline distillate jet fuel	source

Pipeline reach

Pipeline	Injects at	Delivery points	Terminals	Lowest ¢/bbl	Median ¢/bbl
Buckeye Pipeline	Lima	26	56	35.01	149.44
Inland Corporation	Lima	18	0	9.66	212.90
Marathon Pipe Line (MPLX)	Lima (Allen County), OH	3	2	96.60	181.60
Enterprise / TEPPCO	Lima, OH (jet fuel, 58.15.0)	1	0	221.24	221.24

Substitutes

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

Events

No events on record.

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.