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.
