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Chevron Pasadena Refinery (Pasadena Refining System, Inc.)

Pasadena Refining System, Inc. · Chevron U.S.A. Inc. / Chevron Corporation · Pasadena, TX

Operating PADD3 IRS refinery no. R-74-TX-0121 jet fuel
Aerial view of the site Imagery: USDA, USGS The National Map (public domain)
bpd crude capacity · EIA 2026
118,750
pipelines it injects into · +5 same-city tariff origins
1
delivery points reachable
117
terminals on those points
354
events on record
2

Capability

Crude distillation 118,750 bpd operable, 118,750 operating (EIA-820, as of 2026-01-01). Downstream units below, barrels per calendar day.

Upgrading

Catalytic reforming — low pressure 21,300
Vacuum distillation 38,000 sd

Treating — meets sulfur specs

Hydrotreating — kerosene & jet 12,400 sd
Hydrotreating — naphtha / reformer feed 26,000 sd

Crude slate

100% Texas light, sweet crude, including Chevron-produced equity oil from the Permian Basin (per Chevron/RBN Energy reporting on the 2024 upgrade project).

Crude in & products out

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DirectionModeRoutePoint / originProductsSource
crude in marine Refinery dock (PRSI berth), Houston Ship Channel
NOAA Coast Pilot 5 says the Chevron petroleum complex, with wharves on the south side of the ship channel close east of the Washburn Tunnel, ships and receives crude oil and refined products. It gives 950 feet of berthing space and 39 feet reported alongside. The Moran Shipping port directory lists berth PRSI with a maximum draft of 32 feet, length of 800 feet, beam of 106 feet and air draft of 162 feet.		 Waterborne. Origins are not stated. crude source
crude in pipeline Magellan Houston crude distribution system
Magellan Crude Oil Pipeline Company's Texas tariff No. 6.16.0, effective January 1, 2025, names Chevron (PRSI) as a destination. The rate is 15.00 cents a barrel from East Houston and from Speed Junction, and 25.00 cents from Genoa Junction. The tariff names no crude grades.		 Magellan East Houston Terminal, Speed Junction, and the Enterprise, KMCC and MMP Trade Hub connections at Genoa Junction crude source
crude in pipeline Enterprise 24-inch crude line
The Department of Energy's Strategic Petroleum Reserve distribution schematic dated February 2025 draws an Enterprise 24-inch line from the Enterprise Houston Ship Channel terminal into the Chevron Pasadena refinery. This is read from a drawing, not a tariff. Grades are not stated.		 Enterprise Houston Ship Channel terminal crude source
crude in pipeline Enterprise 30-inch crude line
The Department of Energy's Strategic Petroleum Reserve distribution schematic dated February 2025 draws an Enterprise 30-inch line running west from the junction below Pemex Deer Park into the Chevron Pasadena refinery. This is read from a drawing, not a tariff. Grades are not stated.		 Junction beside Pemex Deer Park, which the drawing ties to the Enterprise Houston Ship Channel terminal and to Speed Junction crude source
products out terminal Kinder Morgan Pasadena Terminal
Kinder Morgan's June 2025 terminal sheet lists Chevron among the refiners connected to its Pasadena Terminal. The sheet says the terminal has 22 inbound and 18 outbound pipeline connections, including Colonial and Explorer. It does not give the direction or the grades on the refinery connection.		 Kinder Morgan Pasadena Terminal, Pasadena, TX (KM Liquids Terminals, LLC, IRS T-76-TX-2809) source
products out marine Refinery dock (PRSI berth), Houston Ship Channel
NOAA Coast Pilot 5 says the Chevron petroleum complex ships and receives crude oil and refined products over these wharves. It does not name the grades. The Moran Shipping port directory lists berth PRSI with a maximum draft of 32 feet, length of 800 feet and beam of 106 feet.		 Refinery wharves on the south side of the Houston Ship Channel, close east of the Washburn Tunnel source
products out pipeline Colonial Pipeline
Plausible given the refinery's location at Colonial's documented Pasadena/Houston Texas origin point and its adjacency to the Kinder Morgan Pasadena terminal (a Colonial-connected hub), but no source explicitly names Chevron Pasadena as a Colonial shipper.		 Pasadena/Houston 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.

Pasadena refinery dock

Berth Max draft Max length Max beam Air draft
PRSI 32 ft 800 ft 106 ft 162 ft
  • Bunkering via pipeline not available
  • Bunkering via barge not available
  • attending persons, including crewlist.
  • - Crew are permitted shore leave access.
  • - Failure to comply will result in USCG
  • notification.

Source: Moran Shipping Agencies port directory, read 2026-10-10.

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
Colonial Pipeline
Houston (Pasadena, Cedar Bayou) per research
70 305 77.52 167.26
Magellan Midstream
Pasadena-MVP, TX same city
19 13 36.70 256.57
Enterprise / TEPPCO
Houston (Pasadena) (Harris Co., TX) - Colonial origin same city
15 22 245.33 374.37
Explorer Pipeline
Pasadena, Houston (Harris County, TX) same city
Pasadena (Harris County) Marathon Terminal (joint 103.34.0) same city
Pasadena (Harris County) Marathon Terminal same city
6 10 354.50 382.90
Marathon Pipe Line (MPLX)
Pasadena (Harris County), TX same city
Pasadena, TX same city
4 2 6.13 33.24
Phillips 66 Pipeline
Pasadena, Harris County, TX (Cross Channel Connector origin, Phillips 66 Partners Terminal) same city
3 2 18.82 41.35

Substitutes

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

Colonial Pipeline

Magellan Midstream

Events

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  1. 2024-12 expansion

    Phased startup of the upgrade project was under way as of December 10, 2024 and was scheduled to run through the first quarter of 2025. source

  2. 2024 expansion

    Chevron announced an upgrade project at the Pasadena refinery raising processing capacity by about 15 percent to about 125,000 barrels per day and adding feedstock and product flexibility, including new jet fuel production and gas oil export capability. 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.