Barnsdall oil refinery, Wichita, Kansas, 1941. Marion Post Wolcott, Farm Security Administration.
Barnsdall Refinery, Wichita, Kansas. Marion Post Wolcott, Farm Security Administration, October 1941. PLATE I   LC-USF34-059840-D
Refinery Intelligence
Vol. I, No. 1 · Coming Soon · 2026.04.27
Coverage705 refineries · 116 countries · top global plants by ACDU capacity
CadenceOutage alerts within sixty minutes · turnaround calendar refreshed weekly
SourcesEIA Form 820 · PHMSA · SEC EDGAR · operator releases · refineryintel.com
DeliverySMS + Friday email digest · JSON-LD ontology · CSV pull on launch
Refinery outage intelligence, sourced from federal filings

Every refinery, indexed. Turnarounds and outages, before the open.

Seven hundred five refineries across one hundred sixteen countries. The dataset is built from EIA Form 820, PHMSA pipeline incidents, SEC EDGAR ten-K filings, and operator press releases. Daily SMS on confirmed outages above fifty thousand bpd. One Friday email.

705Refineries
116Countries
100M+Bpd CDU capacity

A Genscape Refinery Intelligence seat costs around forty-two thousand dollars a year. Argus, Wood Mackenzie, and S&P Platts price similarly. The data is good. The price is for one desk at one bank.

We rebuild the dataset from sources that are already free. The U.S. Energy Information Administration publishes refinery capacity in Form 820, refreshed quarterly. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration publishes incidents in real time. Operators disclose unit configuration in ten-K filings. The engineering is in the crawl, the dedup, and the geocoding.

The largest plants on Earth are in the dataset today. Motiva Port Arthur at 636,500 bpd. Marathon Galveston Bay at 593,000. Reliance Jamnagar SEZ at 704,000. ExxonMobil Baytown at 584,000. Sinopec Maoming at 470,000. Dangote Lagos at 650,000. Every row names the source it was built from.

Login launches in six weeks. Three SMS messages per day, hard cap, gated by region. Friday brings the next-week turnaround calendar, the past-week outage roll-up, and the six-benchmark crack-spread snapshot. SMS and email are free. Paid tiers unlock the map, the historical archive, and the API.

Fractionating tower, oil refinery, Seminole, Oklahoma, 1939.
Freedom oil refinery, Freedom, Pennsylvania, 1941.

Seminole, Oklahoma, 1939. Freedom, Pennsylvania, 1941. Two refineries, eighty-five years before this dataset. Plates II–III. Russell Lee, Seminole, Oklahoma, August 1939 (LC-USF34-034038-D); John Vachon, Freedom, Pennsylvania, January 1941 (LC-USF34-062220-D). Farm Security Administration.

What Ships

The dataset, today. The full directory is at bomforge.com/refineries. Each refinery has a satellite hero, a feedstock slate (API gravity, sulfur, primary crude grades), and an outbound product mix. The taxonomy is published as JSON-LD at /refinery-ontology.jsonld; cite it.

Daily SMS, in six weeks. We push the alert when an outage above fifty thousand bpd is confirmed by a primary source: operator press release, PHMSA incident filing, EPA notice, or a corroborating second source. Plus turnarounds starting that morning, plus two-sigma moves on 3-2-1 Gulf, RBOB-Brent, and ULSD-Brent. Three messages per day, hard cap. Reply STOP anytime.

The Friday email, in six weeks. Four o'clock central, the U.S. Gulf Coast close. The week-ahead turnaround calendar. The week-behind outage roll-up. Six crack spreads: 3-2-1 Gulf, 3-2-1 Group 3, 5-3-2 Chicago, RBOB-Brent, NYH ULSD-Brent, Singapore 6-1-2-3. PADD utilization rates.

The map, in twelve weeks. Refinery markers scaled by capacity, ringed by status. Pipeline overlay. Tank-farm hubs at Cushing, Houston, Patoka, St. James, Edmonton. Tanker AIS layer. A Gantt of every disclosed turnaround back to 2010.

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Sources

1.
U.S. Energy Information Administration. Refinery Capacity Report, Form 820. Annual, January-1 vintage. eia.gov/petroleum/refinerycapacity
2.
U.S. Energy Information Administration. Weekly Petroleum Status Report. Weekly throughput by Petroleum Administration for Defense District (PADD).
3.
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA). Pipeline incident database. Real-time. phmsa.dot.gov
4.
Securities and Exchange Commission. EDGAR. Operator ten-K, ten-Q, and eight-K filings. Refining segment disclosures, capex, and Nelson Complexity Index where reported.
5.
refineryintel.com. Public refinery list. Cross-referenced for operator websites and global coverage; six hundred ninety-one rows ingested April 2026.
6.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP), Subpart Y. Petroleum refinery scope-one emissions. Forthcoming integration.
7.
OpenStreetMap. Pipeline and tank-farm geometries. man_made=pipeline + substance=oil|refined_petroleum|ngl. Forthcoming integration.

Plates

I.
Marion Post Wolcott. Barnsdall oil refinery. Wichita, Kansas. October 1941. Farm Security Administration. Library of Congress, LC-USF34-059840-D. Public domain.
II.
Russell Lee. Fractionating tower. Oil refinery, Seminole, Oklahoma. August 1939. Farm Security Administration. Library of Congress, LC-USF34-034038-D. Public domain.
III.
John Vachon. Freedom oil refinery. Freedom, Pennsylvania. January 1941. Farm Security Administration. Library of Congress, LC-USF34-062220-D. Public domain.