Marathon Petroleum

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Marathon Petroleum Company

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legal form Corporation
ISIN US56585A1025
founding 1887
Seat Findlay , United States
management Gary R. Heminger, President and CEO
Number of employees 43,800
sales 75,369,000,000 USD
Branch oil and gas
Website www.marathonpetroleum.com
As of December 31, 2017

Marathon gas station in Long Grove, Illinois

Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC), formerly Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC , is a US oil refining, transportation and marketing company. The company is headquartered in Houston , Texas .

history

Due to the successful fuel brand name Marathon Ohio founded in 1887 Oil Company in 1962 changed its name to Marathon Oil Company, which Marathon synonymous with the product and the company was. In 1998, Marathon founded Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC (MAP) together with Ashland Inc. , which is now the sixth largest oil refinery in the United States . In 2005 it became a 100% subsidiary of Marathon Oil. On July 1, 2011, the downstream business (refineries and petrol stations) was spun off, with Marathon Petroleum taking over the old logo of Marathon Oil. In 2018, Marathon Petroleum acquired refinery and gas station operator Andeavor for a transaction value of $ 23 billion.

On August 4, 2020, it was announced that Marathon Petroleum is selling all 3,900 Speedway convenience stores to 7-Eleven for $ 21 billion.

Pipelines

The Pipe Line Holdings (Ohio River Pipe Line and Marathon Pipe Line) operates a network of 1,600 km of crude oil pipelines, 3,000 kilometers products lines and a butane - cavern storage . The Cornerstone Pipeline is currently under construction from the Utica Shale to the Canton Refinery.

Refineries

refinery Capacity in bpd comment
Anacortes Refinery 119,000
Canton (Ohio) 93,000 ´
Catlettsburg, Kentucky 277,000
Detroit (Michigan) 140,000
Dickson Refinery 19,000 Conversion to a biorefinery planned
El Parso refinery 131,000
Gallup refinery 26,000 Intended for decommissioning
Galveston Bay, Texas 585,000
Garyville (Louisiana) 564,000
Kenai refinery 68,000
los Angeles 363,000
Mandan refinery 71,000
Martinez refinery 161,000 Intended for decommissioning
Robinson (Illinois) 245,000
Salt Lake City Refinery 61,000
Saint Paul Park Refinery 98,000

Gas stations

MPC operates 5,460 filling stations under the “Marathon” brand, which was taken over in 2014 by the Hess Corporation . By 2020, Marathon operated 3,900 convenience stores under the “Speedway” brand, which were sold to 7-Eleven in August of this year . <

Oil tanker port

It has the offshore port for oil tankers, Louisiana Offshore Oil Port , as a joint venture (via Marathon Pipe Line ) with Shell Oil and the Valero Terminaling and Distribution Company.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Marathon Petroleum 2017 Form 10-K Report , accessed May 31, 2018
  2. ^ Marathon to split upstream, downstream businesses. on: worldoil.com , January 13, 2011.
  3. ^ Oil & Gas Journal: Marathon completes Andeavor acquisition, accessed December 15, 2018
  4. ^ A b 7-Eleven Acquires Speedway and Transforms US Store Network. In: sdcexec.com. August 5, 2020, accessed on August 5, 2020 .
  5. a b Annual Report 2014
  6. MPLX: Asset Map ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mplx.com
  7. Stephen Cunningham, Jim Polson: Hess Sells Gasoline Stations to Marathon for $ 2.6 Billion. In: Bloomberg Business . May 22, 2014, accessed December 16, 2015 .