Fuels refinery
U.S. Oil & Refining Co. Tacoma Refinery
U.S. Oil & Refining Co. (dba U.S. Oil) · Par Pacific Holdings, Inc. · Tacoma, WA
PADD5 IRS refinery no. R-91-WA-0144
asphalt
jet fuel
marine fuels
- bpd crude capacity · EIA 2026
- 40,700
- pipelines it injects into
- 0
- delivery points reachable
- 0
- terminals on those points
- 0
- terminals reachable by sea
- 34
- events on record
- 2
Capability
Crude distillation 40,700 bpd operable, 40,700 operating (EIA-820, as of 2026-01-01). Downstream units below, barrels per calendar day.
Upgrading
| Catalytic reforming — high pressure | 6,400 |
| Vacuum distillation | 19,200 sd |
Treating — meets sulfur specs
| Hydrotreating — diesel | 8,600 sd |
| Hydrotreating — naphtha / reformer feed | 11,000 sd |
Production capacity · barrels per stream day
Asphalt road oil · 9,000 b/sd
Isomerization isopentane isohexane · 5,000 b/sd
Sulfur · 11 short tons/day
Crude slate
Not specifically documented in the sources reviewed. The refinery is generically described as low-complexity, receiving crude by marine barge/tanker and rail via its Blair Waterway/Commencement Bay terminal; no source named a specific crude type or source region.
Crude in & products out
| Direction | Mode | Route | Point / origin | Products | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| crude in | rail | U.S. Oil & Refining Co. crude-by-rail unloading station The plant has 107 crude railcar offloading stations, 38 of which can also offload ethanol. The regional air permit worksheet gives a crude throughput of 34,775 barrels a day (12,658,100 barrels a year) for the station. The delivering railroad is not named. |
Not established | crude | source |
| crude in | marine | U.S. Oil & Refining Co. Docks 1 and 2, Blair Waterway The air permit worksheet says the facility receives crude oil by rail and ship. NOAA Coast Pilot 10 lists Docks 1 and 2 on the Blair Waterway, owned and operated by U.S. Oil & Refining Co., with 1,095 feet of berthing space and 40 feet of depth alongside, for receipt and shipment of petroleum products. |
Not established | crude | source |
| products out | pipeline | McChord Pipeline McChord Pipeline is a buried intrastate line 14.25 miles long, built in 1966 with 6-inch steel pipe. It carries jet fuel from the refinery to the McChord Air Base storage facility at Joint Base Lewis-McChord and ends at the custody transfer manifold there. The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission inspected it in 2022 under McChord Pipeline Company. |
At the refinery. State jurisdiction begins at the refinery pump suction valves (P-1401). | jet fuel | source |
| products out | marine | U.S. Oil & Refining Co. Docks 1 and 2, Blair Waterway The air permit worksheet says the facility sends out finished products by ship. Ethanol arrives by railcar at the crude-by-rail unloading station and is loaded onto vessels at Dock 1, up to 3,616,600 barrels a year under the permit. A 2018 Tacoma shoreline permit authorized three 12-inch transfer lines between the marine terminal and the refinery for ethanol, renewable jet fuel and renewable diesel. |
Refinery dock | gasoline distillate jet fuel fuel oil asphalt ethanol | source |
| products out | truck rack | U.S. Oil & Refining Co. Tacoma rack (IRS terminal T-91-WA-4421) The IRS active fuel terminals list dated 8/30/2026 carries the refinery's own address as terminal T-91-WA-4421 under U.S. Oil & Refining Co. The air permit worksheet says the facility sends out finished products by truck. |
At the refinery, 3001 Marshall Ave, Tacoma | 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.
U.S. Oil & Refining Company Docks 1 and 2 · crude in, products out
- Owned and operated by U.S. Oil & Refining Co.
- 1,095 ft of berthing space, 40 ft depth alongside, 18 ft deck height.
- Receipt and shipment of petroleum products. Tank storage of 2 million barrels.
- The plant receives crude oil by ship and sends finished products out by ship.
- Ethanol received by rail is loaded onto vessels at Dock 1, up to 3,616,600 barrels a year under the air permit.
Source: NOAA Coast Pilot 10, chapter 8 ; Puget Sound Clean Air Agency Notice of Construction worksheet No. 11547, read 2026-10-11.
Pipeline reach
No tariff origin point is linked to this refinery yet.
By sea
| Lane | Evidence | Vessels | Terminals | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puget Sound refineries → Portland Over 90% of Oregon's fuel comes from Washington refineries: "about 75 percent by Olympic Pipeline to Oregon, remaining product by tanker ships" (other ODOE pages say pipeline and barge). |
high 2019 | tanker, ocean barge | 6 | Oregon Department of Energy, Oregon Fuel Action Plan, House Committee on Veterans & Emergency Preparedness, 23 May 2019, slide 4; ODOE Fuel Supply & Distribution System |
| Puget Sound refineries → Vancouver WA terminals No document names the marine supply of the Vancouver WA terminals; inferred from their Columbia River docks and the Portland lane. They may instead be barged from Portland. |
low | ocean barge | 3 | EIA, West Coast Transportation Fuels Markets (Stillwater Associates for EIA), Sept 2015 p.37; inference |
| Bay Area and Puget Sound refineries → Los Angeles / Long Beach marine terminals Northern California "regularly supplies parts of Southern California and Oregon by marine vessel"; Southern California took about 16,000 b/d of distillate by marine from other West Coast regions (2013). CEC (2024): after the Martinez/Rodeo conversions the Bay Area will no longer have surplus gasoline for Southern California; Washington cargoes are a regular source. |
medium 2013 | tanker, ATB | 4 | EIA, West Coast Transportation Fuels Markets (Stillwater Associates for EIA), Sept 2015, pp.24, 30-33, 38-40; California Energy Commission (2024) |
| Puget Sound refineries → Southeast Alaska (Inside Passage) Crowley: Southeast Alaska fuel is "sourced from refineries in the Pacific Northwest" (Tacoma, Anacortes, and Vancouver BC) and moved by tug and barge to depots, one via Ketchikan, every 20 days to weekly. Refinery attribution is illustrative, not exclusive; Juneau imported about 20 million gallons of gasoline in 2013. |
high 2016 | ocean barge | 18 | Juneau Empire, "Pumped up: The concealed truth behind gas prices", 14 Feb 2016 (Crowley); EIA, West Coast Transportation Fuels Markets (Stillwater Associates for EIA), Sept 2015 |
| Portland terminals → Umatilla and Pasco (Columbia–Snake river barges) Petroleum barges "originate at the Port of Portland and are offloaded to fuel racks at the Ports of Umatilla and Pasco": 902,240 short tons in 2019 (737,983 in 2020), about 38% of upbound tonnage and declining. No evidence was found for The Dalles or Lewiston/Clarkston. |
high 2019 | river barge | 3 | USDA AMS / Washington State University (Jessup et al.), The Importance of Columbia-Snake River Navigation to U.S. Agriculture, sec. 8.2 Petroleum; Oregon Department of Energy |
All 34 terminals reachable by sea
| Terminal | Location | Lane | Miles along lanes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nustar Terminal Services Vancouver, WA | Vancouver, WA | Puget Sound refineries → Vancouver WA terminals | 416 |
| TLP Management | Portland, OR | Puget Sound refineries → Portland | 417 |
| Shore Terminals, LLC - Portland, OR | Portland, OR | Puget Sound refineries → Portland | 417 |
| NuStar Terminal Operations Partnership L.P. - Vancouver, WA | Vancouver, WA | Puget Sound refineries → Vancouver WA terminals | 417 |
| Tesoro Logistics Operations LLC | Vancouver, WA | Puget Sound refineries → Vancouver WA terminals | 417 |
| Kinder Morgan Portland Liquid Terminals | Portland, OR | Puget Sound refineries → Portland | 419 |
| Chevron USA Incorporated - Portland | Portland, OR | Puget Sound refineries → Portland | 420 |
| McCall Oil and Chemical Corp. | Portland, OR | Puget Sound refineries → Portland | 420 |
| Shell Oil Products U.S. | Portland, OR | Puget Sound refineries → Portland | 421 |
| Tidewater Terminal - Umatilla | Umatilla, OR | Portland terminals → Umatilla and Pasco (Columbia–Snake river barges) (river barge) | 611 |
| Tesoro Logistics Operations - Pasco | Pasco, WA | Portland terminals → Umatilla and Pasco (Columbia–Snake river barges) (river barge) | 643 |
| Tidewater Terminal - Snake River | Pasco, WA | Portland terminals → Umatilla and Pasco (Columbia–Snake river barges) (river barge) | 644 |
| Petro Marine Services | Ketchikan, AK | Puget Sound refineries → Southeast Alaska (Inside Passage) | 737 |
| Ketchikan | Ketchikan, AK | Puget Sound refineries → Southeast Alaska (Inside Passage) | 737 |
| Crowley Fuels LLC Ketchikan Facility | Ketchikan, AK | Puget Sound refineries → Southeast Alaska (Inside Passage) | 738 |
| Crowley Fuels LLC - Tongass Avenue Marina | Ketchikan, AK | Puget Sound refineries → Southeast Alaska (Inside Passage) | 741 |
| Petro Marine Services | Wrangell, AK | Puget Sound refineries → Southeast Alaska (Inside Passage) | 821 |
| Petro Marine Services | Craig, AK | Puget Sound refineries → Southeast Alaska (Inside Passage) | 839 |
| Petro Marine Services | Petersburg, AK | Puget Sound refineries → Southeast Alaska (Inside Passage) | 854 |
| Petro Marine Services | Sitka, AK | Puget Sound refineries → Southeast Alaska (Inside Passage) | 969 |
| Petro Marine Services No. 2 (North Plant) | Sitka, AK | Puget Sound refineries → Southeast Alaska (Inside Passage) | 969 |
| Petro 49 Inc. | Juneau, AK | Puget Sound refineries → Southeast Alaska (Inside Passage) | 971 |
| Delta Western, Inc. - Site 2 | Juneau, AK | Puget Sound refineries → Southeast Alaska (Inside Passage) | 971 |
| Petro Marine Services | Juneau, AK | Puget Sound refineries → Southeast Alaska (Inside Passage) | 972 |
| Delta Western Sitka | Sitka, AK | Puget Sound refineries → Southeast Alaska (Inside Passage) | 974 |
| Juneau Airport Fueling Facility | Juneau, AK | Puget Sound refineries → Southeast Alaska (Inside Passage) | 977 |
| Delta Western, Inc. - Haines | Haines, AK | Puget Sound refineries → Southeast Alaska (Inside Passage) | 1,053 |
| Delta Western - Lutak | Haines, AK | Puget Sound refineries → Southeast Alaska (Inside Passage) | 1,056 |
| Petro Marine Services | Skagway, AK | Puget Sound refineries → Southeast Alaska (Inside Passage) | 1,060 |
| Delta Western - Haines | Haines, AK | Puget Sound refineries → Southeast Alaska (Inside Passage) | 1,081 |
| Petro-Diamond Terminal Company | Long Beach, CA | Bay Area and Puget Sound refineries → Los Angeles / Long Beach marine terminals | 1,368 |
| Vopak Terminal Los Angeles Inc | Wilmington, CA | Bay Area and Puget Sound refineries → Los Angeles / Long Beach marine terminals | 1,369 |
| Shore Terminals, LLC - Wilmington, CA | Wilmington, CA | Bay Area and Puget Sound refineries → Los Angeles / Long Beach marine terminals | 1,370 |
| Olympus Terminals LLC | Long Beach, CA | Bay Area and Puget Sound refineries → Los Angeles / Long Beach marine terminals | 1,371 |
Substitutes
No other refinery shares a tariff system with this one in our data.
Events
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2026-02-20
outage
Olympic Pipeline mainline shut for roughly two days of maintenance-related activity, restarted evening of Feb 19, 2026; BP reported no product release. source
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2025-11-25
outage
A leak on BP's shared Olympic Pipeline near Everett, WA halted refined-product deliveries (including jet fuel to Sea-Tac Airport) region-wide for nearly two weeks; the Olympic system's Segment 2 destination point is Tacoma. Because Tacoma is a delivery point rather than an origin on Olympic Pipeline, this event affects any Olympic-sourced product reaching the Tacoma area generally, but is not confirmed to touch the U.S. Oil refinery's own crude/product flows. 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.