El Paso Refinery (Marathon Petroleum)
Marathon Petroleum Corporation · El Paso, TX
- bpd crude capacity · EIA 2026
- 133,000
- pipelines it injects into
- 2
- delivery points reachable
- 4
- terminals on those points
- 25
- events on record
- 4
Capability
Crude distillation 133,000 bpd operable, 133,000 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) | 33,300 |
Upgrading
| Catalytic reforming — low pressure | 29,500 |
| Vacuum distillation | 55,500 sd |
Treating — meets sulfur specs
| Hydrotreating — diesel | 50,500 sd |
| Hydrotreating — kerosene & jet | 9,500 sd |
| Hydrotreating — gasoline | 38,500 sd |
| Hydrotreating — naphtha / reformer feed | 34,000 sd |
Production capacity
Crude slate
Light, sweet crude oil from the Permian and Delaware Basins (West Texas/New Mexico); some sour WTS handled historically per older refinery profiles.
Crude in & products out
| Direction | Mode | Route | Point / origin | Products | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| crude in | pipeline | Kinder Morgan Wink-to-El Paso Pipeline Historically the refinery's main crude supply line, carrying WTI-grade light sweet crude from the Midland Basin; capacity expanded to ~150,000 bpd in recent years. |
Wink, TX / Midland Basin | crude | source |
| crude in | pipeline | Western Refining Delaware Basin gathering system Western built a Delaware Basin gathering network of a 100,000 bpd pipeline plus a 38,000 bpd truck-unloading facility, together able to supply up to 138,000 bpd of WTI-grade crude, delivering into the Kinder Morgan Wink pipeline system for onward transport to the refinery. |
Delaware Basin (Bone Springs/Avalon plays), West Texas/New Mexico | crude | source |
| products out | pipeline | SFPP East Line (Kinder Morgan) Kinder Morgan's existing SFPP, L.P. East Line runs from El Paso, TX to Phoenix and Tucson, AZ and is a documented outbound refined-products route serving the El Paso market/refining complex; it is also the backbone the planned Western Gateway Pipeline project will extend westward. |
El Paso, TX | gasoline distillate | source |
| products out | truck rack | El Paso refinery local distribution Products are primarily distributed to the local/regional market including gasoline, propane, diesel, jet fuel and asphalt; ~400 refinery employees plus subcontractors run the North and South units. |
El Paso, TX | gasoline distillate jet fuel asphalt propane | source |
Pipeline reach
| Pipeline | Injects at | Delivery points | Terminals | Lowest ¢/bbl | Median ¢/bbl |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kinder Morgan SFPP |
El Paso same city
|
4 | 25 | 88.83 | 160.74 |
Substitutes
Other refineries injecting into the same pipelines — the supply that could backfill an outage here.
Kinder Morgan SFPP
- Tesoro Refining & Marketing CO · Carson, CA 365,000 bpd
- Chevron USA INC · El Segundo, CA 285,000 bpd
- Chevron USA INC · Richmond, CA 245,271 bpd
- Torrance Refining CO LLC · Torrance, CA 160,000 bpd
- Martinez Refining CO LLC · Martinez, CA 156,400 bpd
- Valero Refining CO California · Benicia, CA 145,000 bpd idled
- Ultramar INC · Wilmington Refinery, CA 85,000 bpd
Magellan Midstream
- Motiva Enterprises LLC · Port Arthur, TX 656,400 bpd
- Exxonmobil Refining & Supply CO · Baytown, TX 564,500 bpd
- Premcor Refining Group INC · Port Arthur, TX 385,000 bpd
- Flint Hills Resources LP · Saint Paul, MN 335,000 bpd
- Deer Park Refining LP · Deer Park, TX 312,500 bpd
- Totalenergies Petrochem & Refg USA · Port Arthur, TX 238,000 bpd
- Phillips 66 Company · Ponca City, OK 228,000 bpd
- Valero Refining CO Texas LP · Texas City, TX 225,000 bpd
- Valero Refining CO Texas LP · Houston, TX 205,000 bpd
- Houston Refining LP · Houston, TX 196,500 bpd closed
- Hf Sinclair El Dorado Refining LLC · El Dorado, KS 162,000 bpd
- Coffeyville Resources Rfg & Mktg · Coffeyville, KS 132,000 bpd
- Chs Mcpherson Refinery INC · Mcpherson, KS 119,000 bpd
- Pasadena Refining Systems INC · Pasadena, TX 118,750 bpd
- Hf Sinclair Navajo Refining LLC · Artesia, NM 110,000 bpd
- Kinder Morgan Crude & Condensate · Galena Park, TX 105,000 bpd
- Valero Refining CO Oklahoma · Ardmore, OK 86,000 bpd
- Hf Sinclair Tulsa Refining LLC · Tulsa West, OK 85,000 bpd
- Wynnewood Refining CO · Wynnewood, OK 74,500 bpd
- Delek Refining LTD · Tyler, TX 74,000 bpd
- Alon USA Energy INC · Big Spring, TX 73,000 bpd
- Phillips 66 Company · Billings, MT 71,000 bpd
- Hf Sinclair Tulsa Refining LLC · Tulsa East, OK 70,300 bpd
- Exxonmobil Refining & Supply CO · Billings, MT 61,500 bpd
- Superior Refining Company LLC · Superior, WI 49,547 bpd
- Petromax Refining CO LLC · Houston, TX 25,000 bpd
Events
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2026-07
turnaround
Reporting describes a $130 million turnaround completed/underway at the Marathon El Paso refinery. source
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2025-11-18
outage
Marathon began shutting down units at the refinery after a failure of the main fractionator reflux pump. source
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2025-07-08
outage
A third-party power outage triggered a five-hour flaring incident (three stacks) and a facility-wide shutdown; the refinery released 501 lbs of sulfur dioxide at 100% opacity; no injuries; nearby residents reported large smoke/fire plumes and said they were not alerted, prompting a community fact-check by El Paso Matters. source
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2023-05-10
turnaround
Marathon conducted a plant-wide maintenance turnaround at the 56,000 bpd El Paso North Refinery unit, expected to wrap up within the week. 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.