Robinson is a large, medium complexity refinery located located in Robinson, Illinois in the US.
The refinery is 100% owned and operated by Marathon Petroleum.
The refinery primarily processes light sweet and sour crude oil.
Complexity: 9.7
Atmospheric distillation - 266 kbpd
Vacuum distillation - 76 kbpd
Coking - 31 kbpd
Hydrocracker - 44 kbpd
Reformer - 82 kbpd - Continuous
Naphtha hydrotreater - 71 kbpd
Kerosene hydrotreater - 96 kbpd
Distillate hydrotreater - 65 kbpd
VGO hydrotreater - 65 kbpd
FCC gasoline hydrotreater - 46 kbpd
Alkylation - 19 kbpd - HF acid
C5/C6 Isomerization - 16 kbpd
1906 - Built by Lincoln Oil
1924 - Acquired by Ohio Oil (subsidiary of Marathon)
1998 - Marathon and Ashland merge operations as Marathon Ashland
1998 - Thermal cracker shut down (5 kbpd)
2005 - Marathon acquires full control
2005 - FCC gasoline hydrotreater added
2011 - Downstream business separated as Marathon Petroleum
2011 - Aromatics extraction added
2015 - Hydrocracker expansion (5 kbpd). $77MM project.
2016 - New crude unit (20 kbpd) added to process light crude. $140MM project.