Marathon Anacortes Refinery
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{{Infobox oil refinery
| name = Anacortes Refinery
| image = Anacortes Refinery 31911.JPG
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| caption = The Marathon Anacortes Refinery
| location_map = USA Washington
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| coordinates = {{Coord|48|29|48|N|122|34|1|W|type:landmark_region:US_dim:1400|display=inline}}
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| country = United States
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| city = Anacortes, Washington
| operator = Marathon Petroleum
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| founded = {{Start date|1955}}
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| capacity bbl/d = 120,000
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| employees = 425
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{{Short description|Petroleum refinery in Washington, United States}}
The Anacortes Refinery is a petroleum refinery located about 70 miles north of Seattle on March Point (Puget Sound), just outside Anacortes, Washington, United States. The refinery has operated in Anacortes since 1955, and has 425 full-time employees. It has a 120,000 barrels per day (bpd) capacity{{Cite web |url=http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/refinerycapacity/table3.pdf |title=EIA Table 3. Capacity of Operable Petroleum Refineries by State as of January 1, 2018. |date=January 1, 2018 |website=EIA Refinery Capacity Report |accessdate=January 18, 2019}}{{cite web |url=http://www.ogj.com/articles/2015/02/tesoro-advances-projects-at-anacortes-refinery.html |title=Tesoro advances projects at Anacortes refinery |author=Brelsford, Robert |work=Oil & Gas Journal |date=February 20, 2015 |access-date=October 3, 2015 |location=Houston}} and is operated by Marathon Petroleum.{{cite web |url=https://www.marathonpetroleum.com/Operations/Refining/Anacortes-Refinery/ |title=Marathon Anacortes Refinery |access-date=April 16, 2020}}
Production
The refinery receives crude feedstock via the Trans Mountain pipeline from Canada, by rail from North Dakota and the central U.S., and by tanker from Alaska and foreign sources. Gasoline, jet and diesel fuel are the primary products, which are supplied to end users predominantly in Washington, Oregon and British Columbia. Other products include heavy fuel oils, liquefied petroleum gas, and asphalt. Secondary processing facilities include a fluid catalytic cracker, an alkylation unit, hydrotreating units and a naphtha reformer. Finished products are shipped through a third-party pipeline system that serves western Washington and Oregon.
Explosion
{{main|2010 Tesoro Anacortes Refinery disaster}}
On April 2, 2010, an explosion at the Anacortes refinery killed seven workers when a heat exchanger failed during startup after a maintenance operation.{{cite news | url=http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/five-dead-in-anacortes-refinery-explosion-and-fire/ | title=Five dead in Anacortes refinery explosion and fire | work=The Seattle Times | agency=April 2, 2010 | accessdate=October 3, 2015 | author=Broom, Jack | author2=Green, Sara Jean}}{{cite web | url=http://www.csb.gov/tesoro-refinery-fatal-explosion-and-fire/ | title=Tesoro Refinery Fatal Explosion and Fire | publisher=U.S. Chemical Safety Board | date=May 1, 2014 | accessdate=October 3, 2015}}