Refinery

Catlettsburg refinery — third-party power interruption

10 February 2026

Catlettsburg, Kentucky, United States

What happened

Marathon Petroleum's Catlettsburg refinery shut after a brief third-party power interruption and remained offline the following day, according to industry monitor IIR Energy. Marathon confirmed that operating conditions made flaring necessary but did not disclose the restart timing. No fire, attack or injury was reported.

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Evidence
Reported / attributed
Confidence
Moderate
Infrastructure
Refinery
Latitude
38.4000°
Longitude
-82.6300°

Attribution

Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.

Sources

  1. Marathon shuts Kentucky refinery due to power interruptionReuters via Hydrocarbon Processing · Incident reporting