Phillips 66 Los Angeles Refinery - Wilmington site
Phillips 66 Company · Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX) · Wilmington, CA
Closure announced October 16, 2024, with phased idling through 2025. Final crude processing at the Carson site occurred mid-October 2025. Phillips 66's refining page states the Los Angeles Refinery 'has been idled' and the company is pursuing redevelopment (Wilmington: 'Five Points Union' project; Carson: 'Diamond Gateway' project). Layoffs began December 2025. The City of Los Angeles project description for Five Points Union (August 2025) says all units will stay in an idled and preserved condition during the environmental review and entitlement process, and the plant's air, water and waste permits will be kept during that time. In its October 2024 notice Phillips 66 said it will supply gasoline from sources inside and outside its refining network, and renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel from its Rodeo complex.
- bpd crude capacity · EIA
- 83,400
- pipelines it injects into
- 0
- delivery points reachable
- 0
- terminals on those points
- 0
- events on record
- 3
Capability
This site isn’t in EIA’s latest refinery capacity survey — usually a sign it has closed, converted, or isn’t a fuels refinery.
Crude slate
Historically heavy California (San Joaquin Valley) and waterborne heavy/medium crudes processed at Carson; Wilmington itself processed intermediate products, not raw crude.
Crude in & products out
| Direction | Mode | Route | Point / origin | Products | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| crude in | pipeline | Intermediate-product pipeline from the Carson crude unit (intra-complex, ~5 miles) Wilmington did not receive crude oil. It received intermediate fractions produced off site, by pipeline from the Carson plant, and processed them into finished fuels. The City of Los Angeles project description (August 2025) says the first step of crude separation is typically completed off site. The refinery has since been idled. |
Carson, CA (same operator, same complex) | crude | source |
| crude in | pipeline | Line 2000 (Pacific Pipeline) Line 2000/Pacific Pipeline is a long-established heavy-crude line historically supplying Los Angeles-area refineries (including the former ARCO/Tosco/ConocoPhillips Carson-Wilmington complex) from Kern County; no source found confirming current-day (2024-2025) use immediately before shutdown, so treated as plausible/historical rather than confirmed-current. |
San Joaquin Valley (Kern County) heavy crude | crude | inferred |
| crude in | marine | Phillips 66 Marine Oil Terminal, Port of Los Angeles Berths 148-151 The plant received intermediate fractions over the Phillips 66 marine terminal as well as by pipeline. The Port of Los Angeles document for the terminal (February 2023) says neither crude oil nor LPG is loaded or unloaded there, and that its commodities move by pipeline between the terminal and the Carson and Wilmington plants. The refinery has since been idled. |
Waterborne feedstocks and blendstocks. No crude oil. | crude | source |
| products out | pipeline | SFPP (Kinder Morgan) Kinder Morgan's Pacific Operations brochure of March 2025 shows a line from 'Phillips 66 Wilmington' into Watson Station on its diagram of the San Diego and West Line gathering facilities. The diagram does not list the products. It dates from before the plant was idled. |
Watson Station, by a gathering line from the Wilmington plant | inferred | |
| products out | marine | Phillips 66 Marine Oil Terminal, Port of Los Angeles Berths 148-151 Products moved by pipeline from the plant to the terminal and out by tanker. The Port of Los Angeles document (February 2023) says the largest vessels calling are Panamax tankers with typical maximum loads of about 75,000 deadweight tons, and that the terminal does not serve the refinery exclusively. This describes the terminal before the plant was idled. |
End of Pier A Street, Wilmington, reached by Phillips 66 pipelines from the Carson and Wilmington plants | gasoline distillate jet fuel fuel oil | source |
| products out | barge | Phillips 66 Marine Oil Terminal, Port of Los Angeles Berths 148-151 The same terminal handles barges as well as tankers. The Port of Los Angeles document (February 2023) counts 296 barge calls and 17 tanker calls in 2021. This describes the terminal before the plant was idled. |
End of Pier A Street, Wilmington, reached by Phillips 66 pipelines from the Carson and Wilmington plants | gasoline distillate jet fuel fuel oil | source |
| products out | rail | Pacific Harbor Line The City of Los Angeles project description (August 2025) says the rail lines on the site are served by the Pacific Harbor Line under a Spur Track Agreement and carry fuel inputs and products to and from the plant. It does not say which commodities moved by rail. |
Rail spur into the Wilmington plant | source | |
| products out | pipeline | Regional refined-products pipelines (unspecified operator) No source found naming a specific outbound products-pipeline operator/name for the Wilmington finishing site; general references only describe the complex as a major Southern California fuel supplier prior to closure. |
Wilmington, CA | gasoline distillate jet fuel | 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.
Phillips 66 Marine Oil Terminal, Berths 148-151 · products out
- At the end of Pier A Street, Wilmington. Phillips 66 is the tenant of the Los Angeles Harbor Department.
- Handles products and feedstocks in both directions by tanker and barge: gas oils, renewable feedstocks, fuel oil, diesel, jet fuel, gasoline, blendstocks and lube oils. No crude oil and no LPG.
- Commodities move by pipeline between the terminal and the Carson and Wilmington plants and other facilities. The terminal does not serve the refinery exclusively.
- Largest vessels calling are Panamax tankers with typical maximum loads of about 75,000 deadweight tons (Port document, February 2023). Operations are at Berths 148-149, one vessel at a time. The Berths 150-151 wharf was not in operation.
- About 13.8 acres with 26 tanks and about 850,000 barrels of storage, a truck loading rack and no rail. In 2021 it handled 17 tankers and 296 barges, 6,359,423 barrels.
- Coast Pilot 7 lists it as ConocoPhillips Terminal (Berths 148-151): berthing space 1,328 ft, depth alongside 37 ft, deck height 15.2 ft, tank storage 825,000 barrels, petroleum products.
- The Port's liquid bulk terminal list still showed Phillips 66 at Berths 148-151 in October 2026.
Source: Port of Los Angeles Notice of Preparation/Initial Study, Berths 148-151 [Phillips 66] Marine Oil Terminal and Wharf Improvements Project (February 2023) ; NOAA Coast Pilot 7 ; Port of Los Angeles liquid bulk terminal list, read 2026-10-11.
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
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2025-12
closure
Layoffs begin, affecting union, non-union and contractor positions as the refinery complex winds down. source
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2025-10-01
closure
Phillips 66 books ~$100M in charges (including ~$70M for groundwater mitigation) as it winds down the refinery; several process units already placed in idle state, remaining units idled in phases through end of 2025; final crude processing expected mid-October 2025. source
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2024-10-16
closure
Phillips 66 announces plan to permanently cease crude processing and close the Los Angeles Refinery (Carson + Wilmington) by Q4 2025, citing market fundamentals rather than California regulation. source
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