Catlettsburg Refinery

Catlettsburg Refinery
	Location of the Catlettsburg Refinery in Kentucky Catlettsburg Refinery (the United States)
Country	United States
Province	Kentucky
City	Catlettsburg, Kentucky
Coordinates	38°22′27″N 82°35′55″W / 38.37417°N 82.59861°W
Refinery details
Owner(s)	Marathon Petroleum Corporation
Commissioned	1922
Capacity	277,000 bbl/d (44,000 m3/d)
No. of employees	775

The Catlettsburg Refinery is an American oil refinery. It is located in northeastern Kentucky, at the intersection of Interstate 64 and U.S. Route 23 in Catlettsburg, Kentucky near the cities of Ashland, Kentucky and Huntington, West Virginia. The facility was built in 1916 by the Great Eastern Refining Company and purchased in 1924 by the Ashland Refining Company. The refinery now occupies a 650-acre (260 ha) plus site, producing more than 291,000 barrels per day (46,300 m³/d), and employing around 1,600 employees and contractors. Its location on the west banks of the Big Sandy River and only two miles south of the Ohio River, allows it to ship products by barge as well as pipeline.^[1] It is owned and operated by Marathon Petroleum Corporation.^[1]

Due to the coal mining industry and the large quantity of petroleum products shipped from the refinery, the Port of Huntington Tri-State is the largest inland port in the United States, with 76.5 million tons shipped in 2007.^[2]