Marathon Petroleum Detroit Refinery
Marathon Petroleum Company LP · Marathon Petroleum Corporation · Detroit, MI
- bpd crude capacity · EIA 2026
- 146,000
- pipelines it injects into
- 1
- delivery points reachable
- 27
- terminals on those points
- 48
- events on record
- 1
Capability
Crude distillation 146,000 bpd operable, 146,000 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) | 41,800 |
| Delayed coking | 38,500 |
Upgrading
| Catalytic reforming — low pressure | 20,400 |
| Vacuum distillation | 90,500 sd |
Treating — meets sulfur specs
| Hydrotreating — diesel | 51,000 sd |
| Hydrotreating — kerosene & jet | 8,000 sd |
| Hydrotreating — naphtha / reformer feed | 36,500 sd |
| Hydrotreating — heavy gas oil | 44,500 sd |
Production capacity · barrels per stream day
Crude slate
Wide range from light sweet to heavy sour; up to 80,000 bpd of heavy Canadian crude (including oil-sands-derived crude, per the DHOUP project rationale) blended with light sweet crude delivered via the Line 5/Sunoco system.
Crude in & products out
| Direction | Mode | Route | Point / origin | Products | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| crude in | pipeline | Enbridge Line 5 (via Marysville pumping station / Sunoco pipeline to Toledo area) Line 5 carries light crude oil, light synthetic crude, and NGLs; Wikipedia's Line 5 article explicitly names 'Marathon Detroit' (with BP Husky) as a refinery receiving volumes offloaded at Marysville. Line 5 does not carry heavy crude. |
Superior, WI via Straits of Mackinac to Marysville, MI | crude | source |
| crude in | pipeline | Enbridge Line 78 and/or Mid-Valley Pipeline A 2018 London Economics International study says the refinery is configured to run 80,000 barrels per day of heavy crude and gets it from Enbridge Line 78 (formerly 6B) and/or the Mid-Valley pipeline, because Line 5 does not deliver heavy crude. The 2016 state permit report says all crude oil is pipelined into the refinery. The line that links these systems to the plant is not named in either document. |
Heavy crude oil. The study does not name the origin points. | crude | source |
| products out | barge | Marathon Petroleum Co. River Rouge Terminal Wharf (Rouge 45) NOAA Coast Pilot 6 lists the wharf for shipment of asphalt, operated by Marathon Petroleum Company. The 2016 state permit report says the Rouge Terminal stores and loads asphalts and heavy oils onto barges, and that finished products also leave by lake tanker. The permit says every marine cargo has a Reid vapor pressure under 1.5 psi, so gasoline does not move over this wharf. |
Rouge Terminal, 301 South Fort Street, Detroit, on the Rouge River | asphalt fuel oil | source |
| products out | pipeline | Buckeye Pipe Line Buckeye's FERC No. 446.55.0, effective 1 July 2026, lists Detroit as an origin with rates to points in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania. Buckeye's 2024 directory of connecting facilities lists Detroit Refining Logistics LLC at Detroit, and the IRS terminal list places that company at the refinery's address, 1300 S Fort St. The 2016 state permit report says finished products leave the refinery by pipeline. |
Buckeye's Detroit origin point (Wayne County, code WD) | gasoline distillate | source |
| products out | truck rack | Marathon Petroleum Light Products Terminal, Detroit (IRS T-38-MI-3015) Marathon Petroleum owns and operates the light products terminal next to the refinery, and the state treats the two as one source. A 2019 state inspection describes a six-lane rack loading gasoline and diesel. The 2016 permit report also lists LPG, home heating oil and heavy industrial fuel oil. Asphalt is piped from refinery tanks to a separate asphalt truck loading terminal. |
12700 Toronto St., Detroit, adjacent to the refinery | gasoline distillate lpg fuel oil asphalt | source |
| products out | rail | Refinery railcar loading racks The 2016 state operating permit lists a six-spot asphalt railcar rack, an LPG railcar loading facility, a six-spot pentane and butane railcar rack, and rail car loading of sulfur. The pentane and butane rack is also used to unload ethanol from railcars. The permit does not name the railroad. |
Area 22 of the refinery and the sulfur recovery units | asphalt lpg ngl sulfur | source |
| products out | pipeline | Wolverine Pipe Line Wolverine Pipeline is a well-known refined-products system serving Michigan markets from Midwest refineries; plausible as an outbound route from Marathon Detroit, but no source found this session specifically naming Marathon Detroit as an injection point (Wolverine more commonly cited as delivering product INTO Michigan from refineries further west/south, e.g. Whiting). |
Detroit refinery area | gasoline distillate | inferred |
Docks
The docks at this facility and, where a ship agent or port publishes it, the largest vessel each berth takes. Channel conditions change; these figures are a guide, not clearance to sail.
Marathon Petroleum Co., River Rouge Terminal Wharf (Rouge 45) · products out
- Shipment of asphalt. The state permit covers barge loading of asphalts and heavy oils at the Rouge Terminal, 301 South Fort Street.
- Operated by Marathon Petroleum Company.
- Berthing space 415 feet. Depths alongside 20 to 23 feet. Deck height 5 to 6 feet.
- Pipelines extend to 900,000 barrels of tank storage.
- All marine cargoes have a Reid vapor pressure under 1.5 psi, so gasoline is not loaded here.
Source: NOAA Coast Pilot 6, read 2026-10-11.
Pipeline reach
| Pipeline | Injects at | Delivery points | Terminals | Lowest ¢/bbl | Median ¢/bbl |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buckeye Pipeline |
Detroit per research
|
27 | 48 | 22.63 | 255.39 |
Substitutes
Other refineries injecting into the same pipelines — the supply that could backfill an outage here.
Buckeye Pipeline
- Wrb Refining LP · Wood River, IL 345,000 bpd
- Phillips 66 Company · Linden, NJ 275,000 bpd
- Monroe Energy LLC · Trainer, PA 190,000 bpd
- Lima Refining Company · Lima, OH 183,000 bpd
- Bp-Husky Refining LLC · Toledo, OH 172,800 bpd
- Paulsboro Refining CO LLC · Paulsboro, NJ 160,000 bpd
- Toledo Refining CO LLC · Toledo, OH 150,800 bpd
Events
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2025
expansion
Hydrogen production facility electrical installation project at the refinery (1300 South Fort Street, Detroit) performed by Motor City Electric, indicating continued capital investment; scope/impact on supply not detailed. 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.