Pascagoula Refinery

About

Chevron Pascagoula Refinery celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2003. Since Chevron began operation of its Pascagoula Refinery in 1963, the refinery has grown to be the corporation's largest U.S. refinery and one of the top ten petroleum refineries in the United States.

The refinery‚Äôs success is built upon our business and community partnerships with the people of Jackson County, as well as our production of quality products in ways that are compatible with the community and the environment.

At the heart of the Pascagoula Refinery's success are our employees and their commitment to The Chevron Way tenets of principled business practices, organizational capability, and protection of people and the environment through Operational Excellence. Our employees share Chevron's vision to be the global energy company most admired for its people, partnership and performance.

Pascagoula Refinery Operations : Operating around the clock, 365 days a year, the Pascagoula Refinery processes 330,000 barrels*, or 13.9 million gallons of crude oil per day in the manufacture of petroleum products and chemicals used to manufacture many other useful products. *(A barrel equals 42 gallons.)

Chevron's facility in Pascagoula is primarily a "fuels" refinery, in that the refinery's primary products are motor gasoline, jet fuel and diesel fuel. Other products include fuel oils such as bunker fuel, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), aviation gasoline, petroleum coke and sulfur.

We also manufacture specialty products that include paraxylene, a pure compound used as a feed stock in the textile and plastics industry, and benzene and ethylbenzene, used in the manufacture of a wide range of products including automobile tires, sporting goods, nylon and pharmaceuticals. The Pascagoula Refinery‚Äôs manufacturing, storage and shipping facilities consist of 20 major refining process units, more than 200 tanks (600 million gallons total capacity), and four marine terminals with seven berths. [1]