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Vertex Mobile (Saraland) Refinery

Vertex Refining Alabama LLC · Vertex Energy, Inc. (reorganized, privately held after Chapter 11) · Saraland, AL

Operating PADD3 renewable diesel
Aerial view of the site Imagery: USDA, USGS The National Map (public domain)
bpd crude capacity · EIA 2026
88,000
pipelines it injects into
0
delivery points reachable
0
terminals on those points
0
events on record
6

Capability

Crude distillation 88,000 bpd operable, 88,000 operating (EIA-820, as of 2026-01-01). Downstream units below, barrels per calendar day.

Conversion — makes gasoline and diesel from heavier oil

Hydrocracking — gas oil 28,273

Upgrading

Catalytic reforming — high pressure 21,000
Vacuum distillation 29,000 sd

Treating — meets sulfur specs

Hydrotreating — diesel 17,000 sd
Hydrotreating — kerosene & jet 18,000 sd
Hydrotreating — naphtha / reformer feed 26,700 sd

Production capacity

Isomerization isobutane · 1,150 Lubricants · 21,000 Sulfur short tons day · 33

Crude slate

Domestic light sweet crude (WTI, LLS) delivered by water; the hydrocracker can alternatively run bio-based feedstocks (soybean/corn oil, tallow, waste vegetable oils) when in renewable-diesel service.

Crude in & products out

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DirectionModeRoutePoint / originProductsSource
crude in marine Two marine docks (Mobile River)
Refinery processes domestic light sweet crude received by water via two on-site marine docks.		 Waterborne domestic light sweet crude (WTI, LLS) crude source
crude in pipeline Blakely Island terminal connector pipeline
6 miles of pipeline connect the refinery to Vertex's Blakely Island terminals; this is likely the pipeline behind the graph's 'Saraland terminal to refinery' edge.		 Vertex's Blakely Island terminals (Mobile River) crude source
products out truck rack High-capacity on-site truck rack
Transportation fuel products distributed to southeast markets via a high-capacity truck rack.		 Vertex Refining Alabama LLC, Saraland, AL gasoline distillate 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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  1. 2025-01 sale

    Vertex Energy emerged from Chapter 11 as a reorganized, privately held conventional refiner after no qualified sale bid emerged during the bankruptcy auction. source

  2. 2024-10-09 turnaround

    Hydrocracker restarted in conventional service after a catalyst-change turnaround, producing gasoline and diesel again. source

  3. 2024-09-24 outage

    Vertex Energy filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and explored a sale of the refinery. source

  4. 2024-05-09 outage

    Vertex announced it would pause renewable diesel production and convert the hydrocracker back to conventional fuels, citing weak renewable-diesel margins expected to persist. source

  5. 2023-05 expansion

    Vertex completed a ~$115M project converting the mild hydrocracker to renewable diesel production (Phase 1 RDCP). source

  6. 2022-04-01 sale

    Vertex Energy completed acquisition of the Mobile, AL refining and petrochemical complex from Shell. 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.