United Refining Company Warren Refinery
United Refining Company · Red Apple Group, Inc. (John Catsimatidis) · Warren, PA
- bpd crude capacity · EIA 2026
- 67,000
- pipelines it injects into
- 0
- delivery points reachable
- 0
- terminals on those points
- 0
- events on record
- 5
Capability
Crude distillation 67,000 bpd operable, 67,000 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) | 24,000 |
Upgrading
| Catalytic reforming — high pressure | 13,000 |
| Vacuum distillation | 40,000 sd |
Treating — meets sulfur specs
| Hydrotreating — diesel | 17,000 sd |
| Hydrotreating — kerosene & jet | 5,000 sd |
| Hydrotreating — gasoline | 5,000 sd |
| Hydrotreating — naphtha / reformer feed | 26,000 sd |
Production capacity
Crude slate
Mostly Canadian crude, with some from the northern plains states, delivered through Enbridge. It ranges from light low-sulfur (38 API, 0.5% sulfur) to heavy high-sulfur asphaltic crude (21 API, 3.5% sulfur). As of fiscal 2016, the last year the company filed a 10-K.
Crude in & products out
| Direction | Mode | Route | Point / origin | Products | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| crude in | pipeline | Kiantone Pipeline Owned and operated by Kiantone Pipeline Corporation, a United Refining subsidiary; United is the only shipper. It delivers about 70,000 barrels per day and is the refinery's only crude line. Until 2020 it began at a connection with Enbridge at West Seneca, NY, 78 miles from Warren (10-K for fiscal 2016); it now includes the U.S. part of the former Enbridge Line 10. |
Canada-U.S. border near Buffalo, where it takes over from the Westover Express Pipeline; 101 miles to the refinery | crude | source |
| crude in | pipeline | Westover Express Pipeline (WEX), upstream of Kiantone The former Enbridge Line 10. Westover Express Pipeline Limited, a United Refining affiliate, bought it in June 2020 and has operated it since September 2023. It hands crude to Kiantone at the border and does not itself reach the refinery. |
Enbridge's terminal at Westover, Ontario; 67 miles to the Canada-U.S. border | crude | source |
| products out | truck rack | United Refining Co. - Warren (IRS terminal T-25-PA-1783) The refinery's own rack: the IRS terminal is at the refinery's address. About 86% of the refinery's products left by truck in fiscal 2016. Common carriers haul most of it; a company fleet of eight tank trucks supplied about 18% of the Kwik Fill stations. All gasoline is stored at the refinery. |
At the refinery, 15 Bradley Street, Warren | gasoline distillate asphalt propane | source |
| products out | rail | Rail loading at the refinery About 14% of products left by rail in fiscal 2016; asphalt by railcar is the movement the company names. The Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad switches the refinery according to rail photographers' captions; no railroad or company document was read, so treat the railroad as likely, not confirmed. |
At the refinery | asphalt | source |
| products out | terminal | Company terminals: Tonawanda (T-16-NY-1457) and Rochester (T-16-NY-1474), NY The company's terminal network stores distillate and asphalt. Which products go to each terminal from Warren, and whether by truck or rail, is not stated. Rochester is also connected to Buckeye and Tonawanda sits on the Buffalo products line, so either can take other suppliers' product. |
Supplied from Warren by truck or rail; there is no products pipeline | distillate asphalt | source |
| products out | terminal | Company asphalt terminals: Springdale and Dravosburg, PA; Oswego, NY; Cordova, AL The Pittsburgh-area terminals also take Gulf Coast asphalt by barge, which does not come from Warren. |
By railcar or truck from the refinery | asphalt | 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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2024-07
other
United Refining (parent) acquired the 14-store Pump N Pantry chain to rebrand as Kwik Fill/Red Apple, extending the refinery's captive retail outlet (corporate, not a plant event). source
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2023-09
other
Westover Express took over operation of the former Line 10 from Enbridge. The company has also announced Project Cascade, replacing the pipeline's crossing beneath the Niagara River (no date given). source
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2023-08-10
regulatory
Oil & Gas Watch analysis of federal data: the Warren refinery reported 119 worker injuries from Aug 2017 to Mar 2023, about 10 times the US refinery average. EPA listed 'high priority' Clean Air Act violations in every quarter from Oct 2021 to Jun 2023. source
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2020-06
other
Westover Express Pipeline Limited, a United Refining affiliate, acquired the former Enbridge Line 10, the Canadian leg of the refinery's crude supply. source
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2014-08
other
United Refining and Enbridge agreed that United would fund integrity work on Enbridge's Line 10, with an option to buy the line. 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.