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Martinez Refining Company (formerly Shell Martinez Refinery)

Martinez Refining Company LLC · PBF Energy Inc. · Martinez, CA

Operating PADD5 IRS refinery no. R-33-CA-0027
Shell Oil refinery facility in Martinez, California (pre-2020 Shell ownership; now PBF Energy's Martinez Refining Company)
Shell Oil refinery facility in Martinez, California (pre-2020 Shell ownership; now PBF Energy's Martinez Refining Company) Photo: Unknown (no machine-readable author credited on the file page) · CC-SA 1.0 Generic · source
bpd crude capacity · EIA 2026
156,400
pipelines it injects into
1
delivery points reachable
9
terminals on those points
16
terminals reachable by sea
13
events on record
5

Capability

Crude distillation 156,400 bpd operable, 156,400 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) 56,448
Hydrocracking — distillate 34,320
Delayed coking 25,996
Fluid coking 21,300

Upgrading

Catalytic reforming — low pressure 27,900
Vacuum distillation 101,000 sd

Treating — meets sulfur specs

Hydrotreating — gasoline 90,000 sd
Hydrotreating — naphtha / reformer feed 28,000 sd
Hydrotreating — heavy gas oil 80,500 sd
Hydrotreating — other distillate 49,500 sd

Production capacity

Alkylates · 12,800 Hydrogen mmcfd · 179 Isomerization isopentane isohexane · 15,000 Petcoke market · 9,000 Sulfur short tons day · 413

Crude slate

Not specifically documented in sources reviewed; the refinery's high Nelson Complexity Index (16.1) and dual-coking configuration indicate capability to process heavy/sour crude grades typical of Bay Area refineries.

Crude in & products out

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DirectionModeRoutePoint / originProductsSource
crude in marine Martinez Refining Company Marine Oil Terminal
The refinery's own wharf on Carquinez Strait. The California State Lands Commission assigned the wharf lease (PRC 4908.1) to Martinez Refining Company LLC by action of 6 December 2019, and describes tankers transferring oil and petroleum products to and from shore. The 2020 sale included a deep-water marine facility and about 8.8 million barrels of crude and product storage.		 Waterborne crude (domestic/international) crude source
products out pipeline Kinder Morgan SFPP
Kinder Morgan's Pacific Operations brochure (March 2025) draws 'PBF Martinez' as a third-party facility with a gathering line into Concord Station. Concord is the SFPP tariff origin and the start of the North Line. The brochure does not list products by feeder.		 Concord Station, by gathering line from the plant gasoline distillate inferred
products out truck rack Martinez Terminal Company LLC rack (IRS T-68-CA-4610)
The IRS terminal list shows Martinez Terminal Company LLC at 1801 Marina Vista, Martinez, under terminal number T-68-CA-4610. The list does not give the products loaded.		 1801 Marina Vista, Martinez, CA 94553 source
products out marine Martinez Refining Company Marine Oil Terminal
The State Lands Commission describes the wharf as a mooring for oil tankers transferring oil and petroleum products to and from shore. It has two active berths on the outer side and two inactive berths on the inner side. The products loaded are not itemised.		 Refinery wharf, Carquinez Strait source

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.

Martinez Refining Company Marine Oil Terminal · crude in, products out

  • Oil tankers transfer oil and petroleum products to and from shore.
  • State Lands Lease PRC 4908.1, assigned to Martinez Refining Company LLC from Equilon Enterprises LLC (Shell Oil Products US) by Commission action of 6 December 2019.
  • Concrete wharf about 1,850 ft long and 150 ft wide with mooring dolphins at each end.
  • Two active berths (#1 and #2) on the outer (north) side. Two inactive berths (#3 and #4) on the inner (south) side.
  • Coast Pilot gives 1,850 ft of berthing space, depth alongside of 42 ft decreasing to 39 ft at the west end, and deck height of 15 ft.
  • Coast Pilot still lists it as the Shell Oil Company, Martinez Refinery Wharf, east of the municipal fishing pier.

Source: California State Lands Commission Staff Report 52 (6 December 2019) ; NOAA Coast Pilot 7, read 2026-10-11.

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
Kinder Morgan SFPP
Concord per research
9 16 39.31 54.41

By sea

From the refinery’s product wharf: 13 deepwater-dock terminals in 5 rack markets on the coastwise lanes the research documents (and on upriver by barge). Lanes are regional evidence — sources rarely say which refinery supplies which terminal — so treat these as where this plant’s product can go by vessel, graded by the lane’s evidence.
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LaneEvidenceVesselsTerminalsSource
Bay Area and Puget Sound refineries → Los Angeles / Long Beach marine terminals
Northern California "regularly supplies parts of Southern California and Oregon by marine vessel"; Southern California took about 16,000 b/d of distillate by marine from other West Coast regions (2013). CEC (2024): after the Martinez/Rodeo conversions the Bay Area will no longer have surplus gasoline for Southern California; Washington cargoes are a regular source.		 medium 2013 tanker, ATB 4 EIA, West Coast Transportation Fuels Markets (Stillwater Associates for EIA), Sept 2015, pp.24, 30-33, 38-40; California Energy Commission (2024)
Bay Area → Portland (occasional)
The CEC/Stillwater map shows a "ship/barge — San Francisco to Portland" lane, but under 10% of Oregon's products come from Salt Lake City and the Bay Area combined, and the Northwest "typically does not receive product from other regions".		 medium 2014 tanker 6 California Energy Commission (G. Schremp), California Transportation Fuel Overview & Crude Oil Trends, OSPR Spill Prevention Day, 14 May 2014, slide 4 (Western States fuel flows), lane 6; Oregon Department of Energy (2019); EIA, West Coast Transportation Fuels Markets (Stillwater Associates for EIA), Sept 2015
Portland terminals → Umatilla and Pasco (Columbia–Snake river barges)
Petroleum barges "originate at the Port of Portland and are offloaded to fuel racks at the Ports of Umatilla and Pasco": 902,240 short tons in 2019 (737,983 in 2020), about 38% of upbound tonnage and declining. No evidence was found for The Dalles or Lewiston/Clarkston.		 high 2019 river barge 3 USDA AMS / Washington State University (Jessup et al.), The Importance of Columbia-Snake River Navigation to U.S. Agriculture, sec. 8.2 Petroleum; Oregon Department of Energy
All 13 terminals reachable by sea
TerminalLocationLaneMiles along lanes
Petro-Diamond Terminal Company Long Beach, CA Bay Area and Puget Sound refineries → Los Angeles / Long Beach marine terminals 459
Vopak Terminal Los Angeles Inc Wilmington, CA Bay Area and Puget Sound refineries → Los Angeles / Long Beach marine terminals 460
Shore Terminals, LLC - Wilmington, CA Wilmington, CA Bay Area and Puget Sound refineries → Los Angeles / Long Beach marine terminals 461
Olympus Terminals LLC Long Beach, CA Bay Area and Puget Sound refineries → Los Angeles / Long Beach marine terminals 462
TLP Management Portland, OR Bay Area → Portland (occasional) 766
Shore Terminals, LLC - Portland, OR Portland, OR Bay Area → Portland (occasional) 767
Chevron USA Incorporated - Portland Portland, OR Bay Area → Portland (occasional) 769
Kinder Morgan Portland Liquid Terminals Portland, OR Bay Area → Portland (occasional) 769
McCall Oil and Chemical Corp. Portland, OR Bay Area → Portland (occasional) 769
Shell Oil Products U.S. Portland, OR Bay Area → Portland (occasional) 770
Tidewater Terminal - Umatilla Umatilla, OR Portland terminals → Umatilla and Pasco (Columbia–Snake river barges) (river barge) 960
Tesoro Logistics Operations - Pasco Pasco, WA Portland terminals → Umatilla and Pasco (Columbia–Snake river barges) (river barge) 993
Tidewater Terminal - Snake River Pasco, WA Portland terminals → Umatilla and Pasco (Columbia–Snake river barges) (river barge) 994

Substitutes

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

Events

Outages, fires, turnarounds, sales and closures — newest first.
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  1. 2025-06 other

    Independent investigation report concluded the February 2025 fire was caused by human error stemming from poor contractor training and supervision. source

  2. 2025-03-06 turnaround

    PBF announced two-stage restart plan: crude unit and other units in Q2 2025 (partial throughput 85,000-105,000 bpd), remaining units (including those scheduled for Q1 turnaround) by Q4 2025; ~$30M repair cost, largely insurance-covered. source

  3. 2025-02-01 fire

    Major fire near the catalytic feed hydrotreater (root cause: contractors opened the wrong flange during turnaround prep, releasing and igniting intermediate reflux); refinery fully shut down; fire extinguished Feb 4; six workers evaluated by medical personnel. source

  4. 2023-11-19 fire

    Furnace explosion/fire critically burned a contract worker; investigation found safety-system and alarm failures; approximately $350 million in property damage. source

  5. 2022 outage

    Release of approximately 50,000 pounds of powdered industrial chemicals into the air. 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.