Marquee Refinery

Garyville Refinery

Marathon Petroleum ·Garyville, LA ·NYSE:MPC ·v1.1

A 596,000 barrels per calendar day petroleum refinery in Garyville, LA, operated by Marathon Petroleum. Nelson Complexity 11.7.

Record

Rated capacity
596,000 bpd (atmospheric crude distillation, calendar day)
Nelson Complexity Index
11.7
Status
Operating
Operator
Marathon Petroleum
Parent
Marathon Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:MPC)
Supplier graph
bomforge.com/companies/marathon-petroleum
Coordinates
30.0589, -90.6242
PADD
3
Commissioned
1976

Feedstock slate

Average API gravity
29°
Average sulfur
1.8%
Primary grades
Mars, Maya, WCS

Product yield

Gasoline48%
Distillate32%
Jet11%
Residual3%
Other6%

What coverage reports

43 days since one was reported

Union to Protest Foreign Tanker at Garyville Refinery
2026-07-09 · 1 publisher filed it

2 reported in 12 months

operations 1 · incident 1

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

17 records29 May 2014 to 9 Jul 2026General 8 · Incident 7 · Operations 1 · Expansion 1
  1. Operations Low
    Union to Protest Foreign Tanker at Garyville Refinery

    Members of the Seafarers International Union were scheduled to protest a temporary Jones Act waiver outside Marathon Petroleum's Garyville refinery in Reserve, Louisiana.

    Biz New Orleans · matched garyville
  2. General Low
    Marathon Petroleum expects to pivot its Garyville refinery for Venezuelan crude
    marketscreener.com · matched garyville
  3. Incident Low
    Air monitoring in effect in Garyville community due to release at Marathon Refinery
    WDSU · matched garyville
  4. General Low
    Marathon's Garyville refinery celebrates 30 years of VPP Star status
    BIC Magazine · matched garyville
  5. Incident High
    3-Day Fire at Marathon Refinery in Garyville, LA Finally Extinguished
    Arnold & Itkin + 1 other outlet · matched garyville
  6. General Low
    Officials continuing to monitor air quality in areas near Marathon Garyville refinery
    WDSU · matched garyville
  7. General Low
    Firefighters remain at Marathon oil refinery in Garyville to address flare-ups
    NOLA.com · matched garyville
  8. Incident High
    Mandatory evacuation order lifted as responders control Garyville refinery fire
    WGNO + 1 other outlet · matched garyville
  9. Incident High
    Louisiana refinery fire triggers evacuation for those near the Marathon plant in Garyville
    Houma Today · matched garyville
  10. Incident High
    Marathon Refinery in Garyville reports fire, chemical leak; evacuations lifted
    WDSU · matched garyville
  11. Incident High
    The fire at a Marathon Petroleum factory in Garyville, Louisiana, can be seen from space
    Business Insider + 1 other outlet · matched garyville
  12. Incident High
    Fire, chemical release at Garyville oil refinery trigger two-mile evacuation
    NOLA.com · matched garyville
  13. General Low
    Marathon Petroleum’s Garyville refinery announces nearly $2M in recent community investments
    lobservateur.com · matched garyville
  14. General Low
    Marathon starts expanded Garyville refinery
    Oil & Gas Journal · matched garyville
  15. General Low
    Marathon lets contract for ULSD project at Garyville refinery
    Oil & Gas Journal · matched garyville
  16. Expansion Low
    Marathon Petroleum scraps plans for $2 billion upgrade at Garyville refinery
    NOLA.com · matched garyville
  17. General Low
    'Weak' tornado hits Garyville, floods streets, damages Marathon Petroleum refinery | Weather
    NOLA.com · matched garyville

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.