Phillips 66 Los Angeles Refinery - Wilmington site
Phillips 66 Company · Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX) · Wilmington, CA
Closure announced Oct 16, 2024; phased idling through 2025; final crude processing at the Carson site occurred mid-October 2025; Phillips 66's own refining page (fetched 2026-09) 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. As of this research date the Wilmington site is idle/closed, not operating as a refinery.
- 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 does not receive crude oil directly; it receives intermediate products from Carson's crude processing units via a dedicated connecting pipeline, then finishes them into salable products. Graph edges naming inbound crude/marine/pipeline routes at Wilmington likely represent historical feedstock/blend-component receipts rather than raw crude runs. |
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 | San Pedro Bay / Port of Long Beach marine terminal The Wilmington site sits adjacent to the Port of Los Angeles and would plausibly use a San Pedro Bay marine terminal for feedstock or product movements, but no source found that explicitly names this route for Wilmington specifically. |
Waterborne crude/feedstock imports | crude | inferred |
| 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 diesel jet fuel | source |
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
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.