Refinery

Paulsboro Refinery

PBF Energy ·Paulsboro, NJ ·NYSE:PBF ·v1.1

A 160,000 barrels per calendar day petroleum refinery in Paulsboro, NJ, operated by PBF Energy. Nelson Complexity 13.2.

Record

Rated capacity
160,000 bpd (atmospheric crude distillation, calendar day)
Nelson Complexity Index
13.2
Status
Operating
Operator
PBF Energy
Parent
PBF Energy Inc. (NYSE:PBF)
Supplier graph
bomforge.com/companies/pbf-energy
Coordinates
39.8312, -75.2452
PADD
1
Commissioned
1917

Feedstock slate

Average API gravity
29°
Average sulfur
1.5%
Primary grades
WTI, Bakken, Mars

Product yield

Gasoline48%
Distillate31%
Jet12%
Residual4%
Other5%

What coverage reports

252 days since one was reported

PBF Energy to Idle Paulsboro Refining Units, Looks for More Cost Reductions
2025-12-12 · 1 publisher filed it

1 reported in 12 months

operations 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

11 records27 Sep 2010 to 12 Dec 2025General 4 · Operations 3 · Incident 3 · Expansion 1
  1. Operations Low
    PBF Energy to Idle Paulsboro Refining Units, Looks for More Cost Reductions
    Industrial Info Resources · matched paulsboro
  2. General Low
    GE to Supply Power Recovery System for Valero's Paulsboro Refinery | GE News
    General Electric · matched paulsboro
  3. Operations High
    PBF not currently planning full restart of Paulsboro refinery
    Reuters · matched paulsboro
  4. General Critical
    PBF Energy shutting fuel-producing units at Paulsboro refinery
    Hydrocarbon Engineering · matched paulsboro
  5. Operations Critical
    PBF Energy to shut fuel producing units at Paulsboro refinery
    Reuters · matched paulsboro
  6. General Low
    Paulsboro Refinery raises centennial flag for its 100th-year anniversary
    NJ.com · matched paulsboro
  7. Incident Critical
    Worker killed in Paulsboro Refinery accident
    WHYY · matched paulsboro
  8. Incident High
    Paulsboro Refinery Belches Black Smoke over West Deptford
    Patch · matched paulsboro
  9. General Low
    Paulsboro's PBF Refinery named Star Site by OSHA
    nj.com · matched paulsboro
  10. Incident High
    DEP: Major Leak at Paulsboro Refinery Poses No Health Threat
    Patch · matched paulsboro
  11. Expansion Low
    Valero Energy to sell Paulsboro refinery for $360M
    NJ.com · matched paulsboro

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.