I don’t have live tool access in this turn, so I can’t pull the very latest headlines directly. Based on recent public reporting up to 2024–2025, Marathon Petroleum has been active around refining operations, outages, and safety investigations at various U.S. sites, with notable incidents at Garyville (Louisiana) and Galveston Bay (Texas) in previous years. If you’d like, I can summarize known events up to that point and point you to where to check for the newest updates.
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- Latest headlines from major energy news outlets (Argus, OilPrice, Bloomberg, Reuters) filtered to Marathon Petroleum.
- Status of any ongoing refinery outages, fires, or safety investigations (CSB or internal reviews).
- Any corporate updates on refinery modernization, capacity changes, or labor negotiations that could influence operations.
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The US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) is investigating Marathon Petroleum's Martinez, California, renewables plant after two fires last month.
www.argusmedia.comMarathon Petroleum shut the gasoline-making unit of its huge Galveston Bay refinery in Texas, the fourth-largest in the U.S. by capacity, after a fire broke out on Thursday night
oilprice.comMarathon Petroleum's 596,000 b/d Garyville, Louisiana, refinery was in the process of shutting down units following a massive naphtha tank fire this morning.
www.argusmedia.comMarathon Petroleum has restarted a rebuilt reformer at its Galveston Bay refinery after much of it had been damaged by a fire in May.
oilprice.comDetailed Marathon Gas Station credit risk report with probability of default, credit ratings, spread analysis, and peer comparisons. Expert research on Marathon Gas Station's creditworthiness.
martini.ai*Updates with more detail, broader scope* Marathon Petroleum is pursuing an up to $2bn alkylation project in the northeast US leveraging its logistics company's acquisition of natural gas liquids processor MarkWest. The plan feeds into a broader push to use exports and refinery consumption to balance a swell of midcontinent natural gas liquids production trading at deep discounts to the US Gulf coast. … The companies said they would build a stand-alone plant processing butane into alkylate, a...
www.argusmedia.comPeople familiar with the discussions said that the United Steelworkers union, or USW, has neither accepted nor rejected Marathon Petroleum's last offer for a four-year labor contract for U.S. chemical and refineries plants. Sources said that the offer made on Sunday would provide 30,000 USW workers with a 15% increase in pay over the duration of the contract. Marathon is the lead negotiator of 26 companies, including Exxon Mobil and Valero Energy. Marathon is the biggest refiner in the U.S....
energynews.oedigital.comMarathon Petroleum's 596,000 b/d Garyville, Louisiana, refinery was in the process of shutting down units following a massive naphtha tank fire this morning.
www.argusmedia.comMarathon Petroleum could increase access to natural gasoline at its largest refinery as a gasoline blendstock as the company ramps up its ability to export the fuel. The US independent refiner has applied to Louisiana environmental regulators to build connections to a third-party supplier of natural gasoline and butane at its 562,000 b/d refinery in Garyville, Louisiana. The project, proposed to begin construction in January and come online in October 2016, would increase gasoline production...
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