Refinery

Galveston Bay refinery — cogeneration furnace fire

21 June 2026

Texas City, Texas, United States

What happened

A small fire broke out in a furnace at the Green Power 2 cogeneration station serving Marathon Petroleum's 631,000 bbl/d Galveston Bay refinery. Refinery firefighters extinguished it and no injuries were reported. Marathon did not identify the unit publicly, and available reporting did not establish any effect on refinery production.

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Evidence
Reported / attributed
Confidence
Moderate
Infrastructure
Refinery
Latitude
29.3800°
Longitude
-94.9300°

Attribution

Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.

Sources

  1. Fire extinguished at Marathon's Galveston Bay refineryReuters via Hydrocarbon Processing · Incident reporting