Refinery

Bakersfield Refinery

Kern Oil & Refining ·California, US ·v1.1

A 26,000 barrels per calendar day petroleum refinery in California, US, operated by Kern Oil & Refining.

Record

Rated capacity
26,000 bpd (atmospheric crude distillation, calendar day)
Status
Operating
Operator
Kern Oil & Refining
Supplier graph
bomforge.com/companies/kern-oil
Coordinates
36.0922, -96.7732

What coverage reports

7,892 days since one was reported

Flying J buys Bakersfield refinery / Shell sought to close plant
2005-01-11 · 1 publisher filed it

0 reported in 12 months
2024-092026-08
stories filed per month · red = a disruption

These are counts of what publishers filed about this plant, not an operating status. A quiet month means nobody named this facility that month, which is a fact about coverage and not about the plant. Where this site states how a refinery is running it says so in the facts table above, from the curated dataset, and cites it there.

Wire

11 records24 Feb 2004 to 22 Apr 2026General 7 · Expansion 2 · Operations 2
  1. Expansion Low
    Shell to sell Bakersfield refinery to Flying J subsidiary
    Petroleum News · matched bakersfield
  2. General Low
    Attorney general seeking buyer for Bakersfield oil refinery
    Petroleum News · matched bakersfield
  3. General Low
    More than 70 companies show interest in Shell’s Bakersfield refinery
    Petroleum News · matched bakersfield
  4. General Low
    The Belém-to-Bakersfield pipeline
    Politico · matched bakersfield
  5. General Low
    Kern Energy Announces Hydrogen Storage, Utilization and Decarbonization Initiative at Bakersfield Refinery, Partners with Claire Technologies & HyAxiom for Pioneering Collaboration
    PR Newswire + 1 other outlet · matched bakersfield
  6. Expansion Low
    Alon Bakersfield Refinery sold, to be used to produce renewable fuel
    KGET.com · matched bakersfield
  7. General Low
    Global Clean Energy acquires Bakersfield Refinery in US for $40m
    NS Energy · matched bakersfield
  8. General Low
    Delek US completes sale of Bakersfield refinery for $40m
    nsenergybusiness.com · matched bakersfield
  9. General Low
    Bakersfield refinery imports crude oil from out of state
    KBAK · matched bakersfield
  10. Operations Low
    Flying J buys Bakersfield refinery / Shell sought to close plant
    SFGATE · matched bakersfield
  11. Operations Low
    Shell to close Bakersfield refinery / State's gasoline prices could go even higher with loss of fuel production from plant
    SFGATE · matched bakersfield

Every item names this facility by city or plant name in its headline or summary. Operator-only mentions never attribute. Headlines and links belong to the publishers named.