TotalEnergies Port Arthur Refinery

TotalEnergies Petrochemicals & Refining USA, Inc. · TotalEnergies SE · Port Arthur, TX

Operating PADD3 marine bunker fuel petrochemical feedstocks

Aerial view of the site Imagery: USDA, USGS The National Map (public domain)

bpd crude capacity · EIA 2026: 238,000
pipelines it injects into: 4
delivery points reachable: 59
terminals on those points: 111
events on record: 4

Capability

Crude distillation 238,000 bpd operable, 238,000 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)	75,500
Delayed coking	55,500

Upgrading

Catalytic reforming — low pressure	40,500
Vacuum distillation	117,000 sd

Treating — meets sulfur specs

Hydrotreating — diesel	80,000 sd
Hydrotreating — kerosene & jet	31,000 sd
Hydrotreating — gasoline	51,600 sd
Hydrotreating — naphtha / reformer feed	57,500 sd
Hydrotreating — heavy gas oil	54,400 sd

Production capacity

Alkylates · 7,500 Aromatics · 13,600 Isomerization isopentane isohexane · 7,800 Petcoke market · 19,200 Sulfur short tons day · 806

Crude slate

Both heavy crude oil and lighter domestic crudes; FCC (1990s) and a 2011 coker give the site heavy-crude upgrading capability alongside lighter Gulf Coast grades.

Crude in & products out

Direction	Mode	Route	Point / origin	Products	Source
crude in	pipeline	Keystone Pipeline RBN Energy states Nederland terminal has direct pipeline connections to the Total Port Arthur refinery as well as Motiva, Valero and ExxonMobil Beaumont; the Keystone-specific last-mile spur (Port Neches Link) was purpose-built for Motiva, so this is plausible via Nederland-hub redelivery but not confirmed by a Total-specific source.	South Bow Keystone Nederland Delivery Station	crude	source
crude in	marine	Sabine-Neches Waterway TotalEnergies' own SEC filings note the site can access cost-effective domestic and international crude via waterborne delivery or Sun Pipe Line, and can process both heavy and light domestic crudes (coker added 2011).	Waterborne imports and lighter domestic crudes via 'Sun Pipe Line'	crude	source
crude in	pipeline	Enterprise ECHO Terminal (crude) ECHO is documented as connecting to Beaumont/Port Arthur refiners generally; graph's 'products_pipeline' typing again looks mismatched since ECHO is a crude terminal.	Enterprise Crude Houston terminal / Seaway system	crude	source
products out	pipeline	Colonial Pipeline Colonial documents receiving product from Port Arthur refineries generally.	Hebert (Beaumont/Port Arthur origin complex)	gasoline distillate	source
products out	pipeline	Explorer Pipeline Explorer's own connected-refinery list (as found for this project) names Premcor, ExxonMobil Beaumont and Valero Texas City explicitly, not TotalEnergies by name; regional access plausible but unconfirmed.	Port Arthur	gasoline distillate	source
products out	pipeline	TEPPCO / Enterprise TE Products Pipeline Regional network serving Beaumont/Port Arthur; a Total-specific citation was not found within budget.	Port Arthur area	gasoline distillate	inferred
products out	marine	Sabine-Neches Waterway TotalEnergies (as Total Petrochemicals) has used fuel oil from this refinery to supply marine bunker fuels at Port Arthur and Beaumont.	Refinery marine dock	fuel oil refined products	source
products out	truck rack	Total Petrochemicals USA Incorporated - Par Truck Rack Refinery-direct truck rack; self-evident for an operating refinery of this scale.	Refinery site	gasoline distillate	source

Pipeline reach

Pipeline	Injects at	Delivery points	Terminals	Lowest ¢/bbl	Median ¢/bbl
Explorer Pipeline	Port Neches (Jefferson County, TX) per research Port Arthur (Jefferson County, TX) same city	31	31	96.30	311.00
Enterprise / TEPPCO	North Port Arthur (Jefferson Co., TX) - interconnect with Enterprise Refined Products storage same city Port Neches (Jefferson Co., TX) per research	15	58	192.70	346.30
Magellan Midstream	Port Arthur / Port Neches, TX (via Explorer) same city	9	19	603.88	686.75
Colonial Pipeline	Port Arthur Products Station / Total tie-in Port Neches (FERC 3.33.0) same city Total Tie-In, Port Neches, Jefferson County, TX per research Port Arthur Products Station same city	4	3	11.42	25.63

Substitutes

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

Events

2026 outage
A lightning strike disrupted the refinery's power supply, causing a complete site-wide loss of electricity and unplanned shutdown; TotalEnergies targeted a full restart afterward. source
2024-02 outage
TotalEnergies' 238,000-bpd Port Arthur refinery shut down again just two days after restarting, struggling to maintain production including its 60,000-bpd coker and 35,000-bpd reformer. source
2024 outage
TotalEnergies' 2024 annual results cited unplanned shutdowns, notably at Port Arthur, and a loss-of-steam event, as reasons group refining utilization (83%) missed the 85% target. source
2023-09-05 fire
Fire in the pyrolysis gasoline unit at the co-located BASF TotalEnergies Petrochemicals JV led to collapse of an extractive distillation tower; contained within ~3 hours, no injuries. This is the adjacent petrochemical JV, not the refinery's crude-processing units, but the JV site remained shut for an extended period afterward. 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.