Refinery

Marathon Martinez refinery — voluntary closure

April 2020

Martinez, California, United States

What happened

Marathon Petroleum indefinitely idled its 161,000 bbl/d Martinez refinery in April 2020 amid a collapse in gasoline demand from COVID-19 travel restrictions, initially converting it to a storage terminal before repositioning it as a renewable-diesel facility aligned with California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard, which began operating in 2022. This was a voluntary commercial closure, not an incident or attack.

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Evidence
Documented
Confidence
High
Infrastructure
Refinery
Latitude
38.0200°
Longitude
-122.1300°

Attribution

Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.

Sources

  1. Refinery closures decreased U.S. refinery capacity during 2020US Energy Information Administration (EIA) · Incident reporting