Qualla: Catlettsburg Refinery https://qualla.com/catlettsburg-refinery en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/catlettsburg-refinery-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Catlettsburg Refinery https://qualla.com/catlettsburg-refinery Catlettsburg Refinery: Introduction https://qualla.com/catlettsburg-refinery/ Photo credit Vbofficial, Public domain. Two miles south of where the Big Sandy River empties into the Ohio, a forest of distillation towers, storage tanks, and stack flares occupies 650 acres of riverbank. The Catlettsburg Refinery processes more than 291,000 barrels of crude oil per day - one of the largest refineries in the central United States. The complex has been here since 1916, employs around 1,600 people, and ships its products by pipeline, by barge, and by truck out into the surrounding tri-state economy. From any vantage point in Ashland, Huntington, or Catlettsburg, the refinery is visible. From the air, it dominates a section of the Big Sandy valley with an industrial footprint that has no peer for fifty miles in any direction.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/catlettsburg-refinery-wp/dnv6-catlettsburg-refinery-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Catlettsburg Refinery: Built in 1916, Sold in 1924 https://qualla.com/catlettsburg-refinery/ Photo credit Vbofficial, Public domain. The Great Eastern Refining Company built the original refinery on this site in 1916, in the early years of the American petroleum industry's expansion beyond the Pennsylvania oil fields. The location was strategic. Big Sandy River barges could move products downstream to the Ohio...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/catlettsburg-refinery-wp/dnv6-catlettsburg-refinery-built-in-1916-sold-in-1924.mp3 0:06 2 full Catlettsburg Refinery: What 291,000 Barrels a Day Means https://qualla.com/catlettsburg-refinery/ Photo credit Vbofficial, Public domain. The refinery's nameplate capacity exceeds 291,000 barrels per day - over twelve million gallons of crude processed every twenty-four hours into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt, petrochemicals, and other refined products. To put that in perspective, that volume could fuel roug...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/catlettsburg-refinery-wp/dnv6-catlettsburg-refinery-what-291-000-barrels-a-day-means.mp3 0:06 3 full Catlettsburg Refinery: Pipeline, Barge, and Truck https://qualla.com/catlettsburg-refinery/ Photo credit Vbofficial, Public domain. The refinery's location at the intersection of Interstate 64 and U.S. Route 23 gives it highway access for tanker trucks distributing finished products to regional terminals. The Big Sandy River frontage allows products to load onto barges for shipping down the Ohio - the Port of...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/catlettsburg-refinery-wp/dnv6-catlettsburg-refinery-pipeline-barge-and-truck.mp3 0:06 4 full Catlettsburg Refinery: Marathon Petroleum Era https://qualla.com/catlettsburg-refinery/ Photo credit Vbofficial, Public domain. Ashland Inc. spun off its refining business in 1998 and ultimately merged its remaining refining operations into Marathon Petroleum Corporation. The Catlettsburg Refinery now operates under Marathon's ownership. Marathon has continued to invest in the facility, modernizing equipm...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/catlettsburg-refinery-wp/dnv6-catlettsburg-refinery-marathon-petroleum-era.mp3 0:06 5 full Catlettsburg Refinery: The Industrial Skyline https://qualla.com/catlettsburg-refinery/ Photo credit Vbofficial, Public domain. From the air, the Catlettsburg Refinery defines a long stretch of the Big Sandy River's west bank. Storage tank farms appear as orderly grids of white circles. The processing units cluster densely in the center of the complex, with the tall distillation columns rising as vertical...

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