Also known as:
Galveston bay is a very large, high conversion refinery located on Galveston Bay at the entrance to the Houston Ship Channel in Texas City, Texas in the US.
The refinery is 100% owned and operated by Marathon Petroleum.
The refinery processes a mix of heavy sour and light sweet crude.
Complexity: 10.9
Atmospheric distillation - 625 kbpd
Vacuum distillation - 260 kbpd
Coker - 33 kbpd
Solvent deasphalting - 19 kbpd
FCC - 146 kbpd
RCC - 58.5 kbpd
Hydrocracker - 79 kbpd - Ultracracker
Resid hydrocracker - 85 kbpd
Reformer - 145 kbpd - Continuous
Naphtha hydrotreater - 127 kbpd
Kerosene hydrotreater - 79 kbpd
Distillate hydrotreater - 59 kbpd
VGO hydrotreater - 109 kbpd
FCC gasoline hydrotreater - 57 kbpd
Alkylation - 61 kbpd - HF acid
Aromatics extraction - 39 kbpd
Pet coke - 12 kbpd
Sulfur plant - 1452 t/d
Employees - 1750
1934 - Built by Pan American Oil (subsidiary of Standard Oil of Indiana)
1985 - Renamed Amoco
1998 - Amoco and BP merge to form BP Amoco
2001 - Renamed BP
2004 - Hydrogen plant shut down
2008 - Coker de-rated to 33 kbpd
2009 - C4 isomerization and C5 isomerization shut down
2013 - Acquired by Marathon
2015 - Diesel hydrotreater expansion (9 kbpd). $18MM project.
2018 - Shut down of SR reformer (75 kbpd).
2022 - Integration of the two Galveston Bay refineries, resulting in additional net capacity for distillation (40 kbpd) and resid hydrocracking (25 kbpd). Overall project cost of $1.5B.
2027 - Plan to add a 90kpb ULSD hydrotreater at cost of ~$700MM