Welcome to the table presenting historical changes in the U.S. refining industry. This table shows two snapshots of the U.S. refining industry for selected companies, the first in 1982 and the second in 2002. The companies listed in this table are arranged in descending order based on their 1982 refining capacity.  Notes included in the table indicate how the companies existing in 2002 got there (i.e., what companies they acquired and when).  Additional information may be found in earlier issues of the Petroleum Supply Annual, Volume, which is produced by the Energy Information Administration. For additional assistance, please call the National Energy Information Center at (202) 586-8800.

U.S. Refining Capacity, 1982 and 2002

1982 Rank 2002 Rank Company
Name in
1982
Number of
Refineries,
1982*
Crude Oil
Distillation
Capacity,
1982*
(barrels per calendar day)
1982 Share
(percent)
Number of
Refineries,
2002*
Crude Oil
Distillation
Capacity,
2002*
(barrels per calendar day)
2002 Share
(percent)
Company
Name in
2002
  Vertically-integrated refiners Vertically-integrated refiners
1 7 Chevron 12 1,469,700 8.3 12.0 1,049,000 6.1 ChevronTexaco
2 1 Exxon 5 1,200,000 6.8 6.5 1,863,550 10.8 ExxonMobil (includes 50% of Chalmette Refining LLC)
3 4 Shell Oil 7 1,092,200 6.2 8.5 1,157,700 6.7 Shell Oil (includes what was Equilon, 50% of Motiva, and 50% of Deer Park)
4 - Amoco 7 1,011,000 5.7       (acquired by BP, '97)
5 - Texaco 9 937,000 5.3       (acquired by Chevron, '00)
6 - Gulf Oil 5 881,100 5.0       (acquired by Chevron, '84; sold to BP, '84)
7 - Mobil 6 859,700 4.9       (acquired by Exxon, '98)
8 - ARCO 5 708,000 4.0       (acquired by BP, '00)
9 16 Amerada Hess 3 612,000 3.5 2.5 354,500 2.1 Amerada Hess (includes 50% of Hovensa)
10 9 USX (Marathon) 4 588,000 3.3 2.5 579,700 3.4 Marathon (includes 62% of Marathon Ashland Petroleum)
11 - Unocal 5 490,000 2.8       (acquired by Tosco, 97)
12 15 Ashland 7 462,943 2.6 1.5 355,300 2.1 Ashland (includes 38% of Marathon Ashland Petroleum)
13 3 BP America 3 456,000 2.6 8.0 1,662,420 9.7 BP Amoco
14 12 DuPont (Conoco) 7 420,774 2.4 4.0 542,500 3.2 Conoco
15 8 Sun (Note 1) 3 358,000 2.0 4.0 724,000 4.2 Sunoco (Note 1)
16 - Occidental 1 320,000 1.8       (sold to Southland Corp, '83; fully acquired by PDV America, '88)
18 2 Phillips 3 295,000 1.7 13.0 1,699,300 9.9 Phillips
19 - Union Pacific 3 283,800 1.6       (divested to Ultramar and PDV America ending in '88)
20 - Getty Oil 3 278,177 1.6       (acquired by Texaco, '84)
22 17 Coastal 3 241,782 1.4 3.0 257,500 1.5 El Paso
24 - Kerr-McGee 4 162,600 0.9       (divested to various companies, '96)
25 18 Fina 2 150,000 0.9 1.0 178,500 1.0 Altofina Petrochemical
29 - Tenneco 1 114,000 0.6       (acquired by Mobil, '88)
    Vertically-integrated Total 108 13,391,776 76.0 66.5 10,423,970 60.7 Vertically-integrated Total
 
  Vertically-integrated joint ventures Vertically-integrated joint ventures
  Did not exist in 1982       4 860,000 5.0 Motiva (50% Shell Oil, 50% Saudi Aramco)
  Did not exist in 1982       4 935,000 5.4 Marathon Ashland Petroleum (62% Marathon, 38% Ashland)
  Did not exist in 1982       1 274,900 1.6 Deer Park (50% Shell Oil, 50% Petroleos de Mexicanos)
  Did not exist in 1982       1 495,000 2.9 Hovensa (50% Amerada Hess, 50% PDV America)
  Did not exist in 1982       1 182,500 1.1 Chalmette (50% Exxon Mobil, 50% PDV America)
  Joint Venture Total 0 0 0.0 11 2,747,400 16.0 Joint Venture Total
 
1982 Rank 2000 Rank Non-vertically integrated refiners Non-vertically integrated refiners
17 21 GHR Energy Corp 1 300,000 1.7 1 148,500 0.9 Orion Refining (became known as Trans America Refining, shutdown 9/83, partially sold to Orion and restarted, '98)
21 - Tosco 4 258,800 1.5       (acquired by Phillips, '00)
23 11 Koch Industries 2 238,000 1.4 2 555,500 3.2 Koch Industries
26 - Total Petroleum 3 144,500 0.8       (acquired by Ultramar Diamond Shamrock, '98)
28 - Agway Petroleum 1 119,600 0.7       (acquired by Solomon, 88 and by Valero, '97)
30 - Diamond Shamrock 2 111,100 0.6       (became Ultramar Diamond Shamrock, '97; acquired by Valero, '01)
31 10 Apex Oil Company 2 104,500 0.6 4 561,015 3.3 Premcor
32 19 Crown Central 1 100,000 0.6 2 155,000 0.9 Crown Central
33 14 Mid-American Pipe Line System 2 94,500 0.5 2 367,400 2.1 Williams Companies (renamed Mapco, acquired by Williams, '98)
38 13 Tesoro 2 74,600 0.4 4 441,900 2.6 Tesoro (includes Golden Eagle refinery although sale not closed)
79 5 Saber Energy 1 19,000 0.1 13 1,083,900 6.3 Valero (excludes Golden Eagle refinery, includes Huntway refineries, does not include the leased El Paso capacity)
88 - Ultramar 1 16,170 0.1       (merged with Diamond Shamrock to create Ultramar Diamond Shamrock, '97)
- 6 Did not exist in 1982       6 1,075,245 6.3 PDV America (includes Citgo, 50% of Lyondell-Citgo Refining, and 50% of Hovensa)
- 24 Did not exist in 1982       0.5 125,175 0.7 Lyondell Petrochemical (50% of Lyondell-Citgo Refining)
  Non-vertically integrated Total 22 1,580,770 9.0 34.5 4,513,635 26.3 Non-vertically integrated Total
 
  All Other US Refiners All Other US Refiners
  All other Total 133 2,646,326 15.0 58 2,239,766 13.0 All other Total
 
  US Total** 263 17,618,872 100.0 159 17,177,371 100.0 US Total**
Note 1: Sun was vertically integrated in 1982, but divested most of its upstream assets with the spinoff of Sun Exploration and Development (later renamed Oryx Energy) in 1988.   However, Sun retained a small amount of oil and gas production assets until 1997.   Since 1997 Sun (since renamed Sunoco) has been a non-vertically integrated refiner.
*: Data for 1982 are as of December 31, 1982. Data for 2002 were collected as of December 31, 2000, but reflect acquisitions and divestitures reported in company news releases through April 2002.
**: "U.S. Total" includes Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.   Also note that the expiration of the November 1974 crude oil entitlements program (which was designed to eliminate disparities in crude oil acquisitions costs and effectively required larger (those with crude oil throughput of more than 175, 000 barrels per calendar day) to make payments to small refiners) in January 1981 was followed by the closure of 86 refineries in 1981, 1982, and 1983 with total crude oil distillation capacity of 1,994,214 barrels per calendar day (bpd).   Ten of the 86 were owned by the top 10 Refiners in 1982 with a resulting loss of refining capacity totalling 636,000 bpd.   See Energy Information Administration (EIA), Performance Profiles of Major Energy Producers 1993, DOE/EIA-0206(93) (Washington, DC, January 1995), pp. 85 and 86; and EIA, Petroleum Supply Annual 1983, Volume 1, DOE/EIA-0340(84)/1 (Washington, DC, June 1984), pp. 111-113.
Sources: Energy Information Administration, Petroleum Supply Annual 1982, Volume 1, DOE/EIA-0340(82)/1 (June 1983, Washington, DC), pp. 97-103 and and Petroleum Supply Annual 2000, Volume 1, DOE/EIA-0340(2000)/1 (Washington, DC, June 2001), Table 40; and company press releases.

Last Updated on 05/01/2002
By Financial Analysis Team
Email: neal.davis@eia.doe.gov