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Petroleum Refinery National Priority Information Sheet
Through multi-issue, multi-facility settlements or detailed investigations and aggressive enforcement, this national priority addresses the most significant Clean Air Act compliance concerns affecting the petroleum refining industry. Since December 2000, 24 global refinery settlements have been reached with refiners representing nearly 88 percent of domestic refining capacity:
- BP Exploration and Oil, Inc.
- Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
- CHS, Inc. (Cenex)
- CITGO
- Coastal Eagle Point Oil Company
- Conoco (pre ConocoPhillips merger refineries only)
- ConocoPhillips
- Ergon Refining, Inc.
- ExxonMobil Corporation
- Frontier
- Giant Industries
- Holly Refining
- Hunt Refining
- Koch Industries
- Lion Oil Company
- Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC
- Motiva Enterprises LLC/Equilon Enterprises/Deer Park Refining (Shell)
- Navajo/Montana Refining Company
- Sunoco, Inc.
- Sinclair Oil Co.
- Total Petrochemicals U.S.A.
- Valero Refining Company
- Valero (Premcor)
- Wyoming Refining
Number of Refineries Covered by Consent Decrees: 99
Where: Nationwide (29 states)
- Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming and West Virginia.
Refining Capacity Under Consent Decrees: More than 14,843,000 barrels per day
Emissions reductions:
- Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) by more than 87,000 tons per year
- Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) by more than 250,000 tons per year
- Air Toxics – Benzene and volatile organic compounds (unquantifiable fugitive emissions)
Injunctive Relief: $5 billion in control technologies
Civil Penalties: $73 million
Supplemental Environmental Projects: $67 million
Ongoing Negotiations: 7 refiners (13 refineries); approximately 7 percent of domestic refining capacity