(Reuters) -A fire broke out in a jet fuel unit at Chevron’s 285,000 barrel-per-day El Segundo refinery near Los Angeles on Thursday, sending flames and smoke into the air.
No injuries were reported and all workers at the refinery were accounted for, Chevron said in an email.
The fire broke out in the refinery’s Isomax 7 unit, which converts mid-distillate fuel oil into jet fuel, two sources said.
Isomax 7 produces jet fuel along with the refinery’s two crude distillation units for Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
Chevron’s second-biggest refinery in the United States, the El Segundo facility supplies a fifth of all motor vehicle fuels and 40% of the jet fuel consumed in southern California.
In the U.S. so far in 2025, there have been several refinery fire incidents. Below are key details:
Company Processing Key products Location Date of Impact
capacity incident
Chevron 285,000 Produces about 40% of El Segundo, California October 3 No injuries were
barrel-per-day southern California’s reported, all workers
(bpd) jet fuel and 20% of its at the refinery were
gasoline accounted for.
Fire broke out in the
refinery’s Isomax 7
unit, which converts
mid-distillate fuel
oil into jet fuel.
CITGO 459,800 bpd Gasoline, diesel, jet Lake Charles, Louisiana September A flash fire occurred
fuel, lubricants, and 22 and affected four
petrochemicals contract workers.
Refinery operations
remain normal and
uninterrupted
July 11 A lightning strike
started a fire at a
storage tank. All
other parts of the
refinery are
operating normally.
Phillips 66 258,000 bpd Produces a high Linden, New Jersey August 14 An ancillary piece of
percentage of equipment of the
transportation fuels, refinery’s Fluid
as well as Catalytic Cracking
petrochemical unit caught fire and
feedstocks, residual led to the production
fuel oil and home outage.
heating oil
Chevron 356,440 bpd Mainly manufactures Pascagoula, Mississippi July 15 An incident at the
motor gasoline, jet refinery’s wastewater
fuel, and diesel fuel. treatment led to the
Other products include fire and four workers
fuel oils such as were injured.
Liquefied Petroleum Gas
(LPG), aviation
gasoline, petroleum
coke and sulfur
Marathon 631,000 bpd Gasoline, distillates, Galveston Bay, Texas June 14 Production was cut
Petroleum Corp aromatics, heavy fuel back on the
oil, dry gas, gasoline-producing
fuel-grade coke, 140,000 bpd fluidic
refinery-grade catalytic cracker 3
propylene, (FCC-3) and the
chemical-grade 115,000 cat feed
propylene and sulfur hydrotreater due to
the fire. No injuries
reported, and all
personnel were
accounted for.
Hunt Refining 50,000 bpd Gasoline, diesel fuel, Tuscaloosa, Alabama May 7 A fire broke out at
jet fuel, and asphalt the refinery’s coker
unit following an
external power
outage, prompting the
company to operate at
reduced rates.
Valero Energy 145,000 bpd Processes sour crude Benicia, California May 5 A fire broke out at
oils into gasoline, the refinery, causing
diesel, jet fuel and damage to its
asphalt 77,000-bpd fluid
catalytic cracker
(FCC) unit. All
personnel accounted
for, and no injuries
were reported.
According to the
company’s website,
the refinery employs
more than 400 people.
PBF Energy 156,400 bpd Gasoline, diesel fuel, Martinez, California April 3 A portable generator
jet fuel, at the refinery
intermediates, caught fire while
petroleum coke, LPG, being refueled by a
sulfur contract worker, who
was transported
off-site for medical
evaluation and
treatment.
Phillips 66 138,700 bpd Gasoline, diesel, Los Angeles, California March 18 The fire was quickly
aviation fuel and isolated and
fuel-grade petroleum extinguished,
coke operations were not
impacted, and all
personnel were
accounted for.
According to the
company’s website,
approximately 600
employees are on-site
PBF Energy 156,400 bpd Gasoline, diesel fuel, Martinez, California February 1 A fire broke out near
jet fuel, the 77,500-bpd cat
intermediates, feed hydrotreater,
petroleum coke, LPG, impacting operations.
sulfur Partial production
resumed on July 31,
while the full
restart of the
remaining units is
planned by the end of
2025
CVR Energy 132,000 bpd Gasoline, diesel fuel, Coffeyville, Kansas January 21 A fire broke out in
jet fuel, petroleum the naphtha
coke, LPG, sulfur. Also hydrotreater unit,
features an adjacent and all employees
nitrogen fertilizer have been accounted
plant for.
(Reporting by Anushree Mukherjee and Anmol Choubey in Bengaluru.Editing by Mark Potter)
