Paulsboro Refinery (Paulsboro Refining Company LLC)

Capability

Crude distillation 160,000 bpd operable, 160,000 operating (EIA-820, as of 2026-01-01). Downstream units below, barrels per calendar day.

Production capacity · barrels per stream day

Crude slate

PBF says the Paulsboro refinery works in combination with the Delaware City refinery to process a wide variety of crude oils. No grades are named.

Base oils

PBF's FY2025 Form 10-K: 'The Paulsboro refinery predominantly manufactures asphalt, jet fuel, ULSD, and Group I base oils or lubricants.' The Paulsboro units table lists the Lube Oil Processing Unit at 12,000 (barrels per stream day) and not idled, while the FCC, alkylation and delayed coking units are marked 'Idled' following 'the reconfiguration of our East Coast refineries in 2020' and 'subsequent restart of several idled processing units at the Paulsboro refinery in 2022'. Industrial Info (Oct 30, 2020) on the reconfiguration: 'Lubes and asphalt units will remain in operation.' The Aug 12, 2026 Lubes'n'Greases price report says Paulsboro planned a five-week Group I plant maintenance in September 2026, so lube production continues.

Process route

Solvent refining

Brands

VP

Ships by

pipeline, barge, truck

Owners

PBF Energy Inc. 100%

Grades offered

Base oil events and projects

1. 2026-09-01 Turnaround Group I

   'Paulsboro is planning to take its Group I plant in New Jersey off-line for maintenance for five weeks in September' 2026 and was expected to build inventories to cover contractual obligations. Day not given; placed at the start of September 2026. announced 2026-08-12 · public target 2026-09 Lubes'n'Greases medium

2. 2020-10-30 Other Group I paulsboro-east-coast-reconfiguration-2020

   Trade-press confirmation that the lube plant survived the reconfiguration: 'Lubes and asphalt units will remain in operation.' PBF to lay off an estimated 250 refinery employees; action 'effectively removes 85,000 BBL/d of refining capacity', to be completed by end-2020. announced 2020-10-29 · public target 2020-12 Industrial Info Resources medium

3. 2020-10-29 Other Group I paulsboro-east-coast-reconfiguration-2020

   PBF announced an East Coast refining reconfiguration: 'the Paulsboro refinery will be idling the following units: the smaller of two crude units, coker, fluid catalytic cracker and several smaller units'; 'The reconfiguration is expected to be complete by year-end 2020.' The release does not mention lubricants; the lube unit was not among the idled units. announced 2020-10-29 · public target 2020-12 PBF Energy via SEC EDGAR high

Not established from public sources: The 10-K's 12,000 b/sd Lube Oil Processing Unit is not itself labeled Group I; the Group I attribution comes from the same filing's product description. Older (2008-2010) Lube Report items splitting Paulsboro into 11,000 b/d Group I and 500 b/d Group II appeared only in search snippets and were not fetched, so no Group II row is recorded. Process route 'solvent_refining' is taken from the 10-K glossary ('conventionally refined') and the propane deasphalting unit, not from an explicit process description. Feedstock not stated. Logistics from the 10-K refer to refinery products generally ('pipelines, barges, or at its truck rack'), not lube specifically; rail is not listed for Paulsboro. NJDEP permit not consulted. ROI-NJ (Nov 11, 2020) covered the WARN notice (up to 250 jobs) but did not address lubes. The 2022 restart of idled units is from the 10-K footnote without a date. No Paulsboro posted-price or outage item for 2021-2025 was found in pages read.

Crude in & products out

Pipeline reach

Substitutes

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

Events

1. 2026-09-01 Turnaround Group I

   'Paulsboro is planning to take its Group I plant in New Jersey off-line for maintenance for five weeks in September' 2026 and was expected to build inventories to cover contractual obligations. Day not given; placed at the start of September 2026. source

2. 2026 turnaround

   PBF guided a fourth quarter 2026 crude unit turnaround at the Paulsboro refinery, expected to last 30 to 35 days. PBF's second quarter 2026 release deferred the Chalmette and Toledo fourth quarter turnarounds to 2027 and did not mention deferring Paulsboro. source

3. 2023-11-06 regulatory

   NJDEP issued a draft significant modification of the Title V operating permit (BOP220001) for Paulsboro Refining Co. The prior permit expired 2022-02-10 and the facility was operating under an application shield. source

4. 2020-10-30 Other Group I

   Trade-press confirmation that the lube plant survived the reconfiguration: 'Lubes and asphalt units will remain in operation.' PBF to lay off an estimated 250 refinery employees; action 'effectively removes 85,000 BBL/d of refining capacity', to be completed by end-2020. source

5. 2020-10-29 Other Group I

   PBF announced an East Coast refining reconfiguration: 'the Paulsboro refinery will be idling the following units: the smaller of two crude units, coker, fluid catalytic cracker and several smaller units'; 'The reconfiguration is expected to be complete by year-end 2020.' The release does not mention lubricants; the lube unit was not among the idled units. source