Garyville Could See $2.2B Project

BATON ROUGE, LA–Marathon Petroleum Corp. is nearing the next step forward in its $2.2 billion to $2.5 billion potential upgrade to the Garyville refinery. At the end of April, the local company will file permit applications for the project with Louisiana’s Department of Environmental Quality. Following feasibility studies, Marathon Petroleum is expected to make a decision on the project by the start of 2015.

“As part of the ongoing feasibility study, Marathon Petroleum is pleased to be taking this next step of submitting the permit applications for the Residual Oil Upgrade Expansion at our Garyville facility,” said Rich Bedell, the company’s senior vice president for Refining, in a statement. “We have been diligently working with the state and local officials concerning the various milestones for a project of this size.