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World Oil Refining (formerly Lunday-Thagard) South Gate Refinery

Lunday-Thagard Co. dba World Oil Refining · World Oil Corp · South Gate, CA

Operating PADD5 asphalt roofing flux gilsonite/cutback products lube oils waste oil recycling
Aerial view of the site Imagery: USDA, USGS The National Map (public domain)
bpd crude capacity · EIA 2026
8,500
pipelines it injects into
0
delivery points reachable
0
terminals on those points
0
events on record
0

Capability

Crude distillation 8,500 bpd operable, 8,500 operating (EIA-820, as of 2026-01-01). Downstream units below, barrels per calendar day.

Upgrading

Vacuum distillation 5,000 sd

Production capacity

Asphalt road oil · 3,750

Crude slate

Heavy crude oil and recycled/waste-oil feedstocks (does not process light sweet crude into transportation fuels); per abarrelfull/portfolio-pplus, configured as atmospheric (10 kbpd) + vacuum (7 kbpd) distillation feeding a 6 kbpd asphalt plant.

Crude in & products out

From refinery research; each row links its source.
DirectionModeRoutePoint / originProductsSource
crude in marine Ribost Marine Terminal (affiliate)
Ribost Marine Terminal LLC is a ~500,000-bbl marine storage and transfer terminal in Long Beach Harbor operated as a World Oil Corp affiliate; it is the logical marine receipt point for crude/feedstock destined for the South Gate plant, but no source explicitly states the refinery-to-terminal pipeline connection, so this is an inference from corporate-family structure.
Long Beach Harbor crude source
crude in truck Pan Pacific Petroleum Co. (affiliate trucking)
Affiliate trucking company hauling from Bakersfield and South Gate; likely used for feedstock and/or recycled-oil supply given the plant processes heavy crude and recycled feedstocks. Inference, not directly documented as a refinery inbound route.
Bakersfield, CA crude source
products out rail D/K Environmental (affiliate railcar facility)
Affiliate railcar loading/transfer facility in Vernon; plausible outbound route for asphalt/byproducts but not directly confirmed as a South Gate refinery product route.
Vernon, CA asphalt roofing flux source
products out truck rack Refinery truck rack (South Gate)
Asphalt and specialty-products refineries of this size and configuration typically distribute almost entirely by truck rack; no explicit truck-rack citation was found beyond general product listings.
9301-9302 Garfield Ave, South Gate, CA asphalt roofing flux gilsonite/cutback products source

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

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.