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Petroleum refining in the United States in 2024 had a capacity of 18.4 million barrels per day. [2] Although the US was the world's largest net importer of refined petroleum products as recently as 2008, the US became a net exporter in 2010, and in 2014 was the largest exporter and the largest net exporter of refined petroleum. [ 3 ]
Location of United States petroleum refineries, 2012. The United States petroleum refining industry, the world's largest, is most heavily concentrated along the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana. In 2012, US refiners produced 18.5 million barrels per day of refined petroleum products. [18] Of this amount, 15 percent was exported. [19]
As a result of these closures total US refinery capacity fell between 1981 and 1995, though the operating capacity stayed fairly constant in that time period at around 15,000,000 barrels per day (2,400,000 m 3 /d). [25] Increases in facility size and improvements in efficiencies have offset much of the lost physical capacity of the industry.
In the United States, refining capacity has fallen by about 1 million barrels per day, or roughly 6%. With global demand for oil and oil products nearly back to pre-pandemic levels, that marginal ...
U.S. oil refining capacity this year could decline by the largest amount in nearly a decade as pandemic-related travel curbs and a fire shut several plants, reversing years of small gains. In the ...
In 2019, the United States became a net energy exporter for the first time since the 1950s. That means in terms of all forms of energy—oil, gas, coal, refined products and so on—the United ...
The single remaining refinery in Hawaii now also includes refining assets previously owned and operated as "Hawaii Refinery" by Chevron Corporation with up to 54,000 bbl/d (8,600 m 3 /d) in additional capacity. Chevron sold their Hawaii Refinery to newly formed Island Energy Services LLC in 2016, and IES sold the refining assets to Par Hawaii ...
Refinery runs are expected to increase from an average of 15.4 million barrels per day in the first quarter to 16.2 million barrels in the third quarter, the U.S. Energy Information Administration ...