Factbox-US refinery fire incidents so far in 2025

(Reuters) -A fire broke out in a jet fuel unit at Chevron’s 285,000 barrel-per-day El Segundo refinery near Los Angeles on Thursday, sending flames and smoke into the air.

No injuries were reported and all workers at the refinery were accounted for, Chevron said in an email.

The fire broke out in the refinery’s Isomax 7 unit, which converts mid-distillate fuel oil into jet fuel, two sources said.

Isomax 7 produces jet fuel along with the refinery’s two crude distillation units for Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).

Chevron’s second-biggest refinery in the United States, the El Segundo facility supplies a fifth of all motor vehicle fuels and 40% of the jet fuel consumed in southern California.

In the U.S. so far in 2025, there have been several refinery fire incidents. Below are key details:

Company Processing Key products Location Date of Impact

capacity incident

Chevron 285,000 Produces about 40% of El Segundo, California October 3 No injuries were

barrel-per-day southern California’s reported, all workers

(bpd) jet fuel and 20% of its at the refinery were

gasoline accounted for.

Fire broke out in the

refinery’s Isomax 7

unit, which converts

mid-distillate fuel

oil into jet fuel.

CITGO 459,800 bpd Gasoline, diesel, jet Lake Charles, Louisiana September A flash fire occurred

fuel, lubricants, and 22 and affected four

petrochemicals contract workers.

Refinery operations

remain normal and

uninterrupted

July 11 A lightning strike

started a fire at a

storage tank. All

other parts of the

refinery are

operating normally.

Phillips 66 258,000 bpd Produces a high Linden, New Jersey August 14 An ancillary piece of

percentage of equipment of the

transportation fuels, refinery’s Fluid

as well as Catalytic Cracking

petrochemical unit caught fire and

feedstocks, residual led to the production

fuel oil and home outage.

heating oil

Chevron 356,440 bpd Mainly manufactures Pascagoula, Mississippi July 15 An incident at the

motor gasoline, jet refinery’s wastewater

fuel, and diesel fuel. treatment led to the

Other products include fire and four workers

fuel oils such as were injured.

Liquefied Petroleum Gas

(LPG), aviation

gasoline, petroleum

coke and sulfur

Marathon 631,000 bpd Gasoline, distillates, Galveston Bay, Texas June 14 Production was cut

Petroleum Corp aromatics, heavy fuel back on the

oil, dry gas, gasoline-producing

fuel-grade coke, 140,000 bpd fluidic

refinery-grade catalytic cracker 3

propylene, (FCC-3) and the

chemical-grade 115,000 cat feed

propylene and sulfur hydrotreater due to

the fire. No injuries

reported, and all

personnel were

accounted for.

Hunt Refining 50,000 bpd Gasoline, diesel fuel, Tuscaloosa, Alabama May 7 A fire broke out at

jet fuel, and asphalt the refinery’s coker

unit following an

external power

outage, prompting the

company to operate at

reduced rates.

Valero Energy 145,000 bpd Processes sour crude Benicia, California May 5 A fire broke out at

oils into gasoline, the refinery, causing

diesel, jet fuel and damage to its

asphalt 77,000-bpd fluid

catalytic cracker

(FCC) unit. All

personnel accounted

for, and no injuries

were reported.

According to the

company’s website,

the refinery employs

more than 400 people.

PBF Energy 156,400 bpd Gasoline, diesel fuel, Martinez, California April 3 A portable generator

jet fuel, at the refinery

intermediates, caught fire while

petroleum coke, LPG, being refueled by a

sulfur contract worker, who

was transported

off-site for medical

evaluation and

treatment.

Phillips 66 138,700 bpd Gasoline, diesel, Los Angeles, California March 18 The fire was quickly

aviation fuel and isolated and

fuel-grade petroleum extinguished,

coke operations were not

impacted, and all

personnel were

accounted for.

According to the

company’s website,

approximately 600

employees are on-site

PBF Energy 156,400 bpd Gasoline, diesel fuel, Martinez, California February 1 A fire broke out near

jet fuel, the 77,500-bpd cat

intermediates, feed hydrotreater,

petroleum coke, LPG, impacting operations.

sulfur Partial production

resumed on July 31,

while the full

restart of the

remaining units is

planned by the end of

2025

CVR Energy 132,000 bpd Gasoline, diesel fuel, Coffeyville, Kansas January 21 A fire broke out in

jet fuel, petroleum the naphtha

coke, LPG, sulfur. Also hydrotreater unit,

features an adjacent and all employees

nitrogen fertilizer have been accounted

plant for.

(Reporting by Anushree Mukherjee and Anmol Choubey in Bengaluru.Editing by Mark Potter)