Valero Port Arthur Refinery — Port Arthur, Texas

TYPE3’s map data identifies Valero Port Arthur as a refining facility in Jefferson County, with city-level geographic precision, coordinates 29.885, -93.97, Operating status, and a 150 MW seed estimate. Its note says reported capacity varies between about 395,000 and 435,000 barrels per day and places the plant in Valero’s Golden Triangle cluster. Valero’s reported refinery throughput figures remain source-sheet context, not measured electrical load.

Valero’s current Port Arthur page places the refinery about 90 miles east of Houston, lists about 770 employees, and says the plant processes heavy sour crude and other feedstocks into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. It also states that a large-scale sustainable aviation fuel project at the adjacent renewable diesel plant was completed in the fourth quarter of 2024, and that the site hosted a large-scale carbon-capture project beginning in 2013. Valero’s April 2026 investor presentation lists Port Arthur throughput at 435 thousand barrels per day and crude capacity at 385 thousand barrels per day as of December 31, 2025. EIA’s January 1, 2026 ranking independently lists Premcor Refining Group Inc. at Port Arthur at 385,000 barrels per calendar day.

Keep Valero separate from Motiva’s larger Port Arthur refinery and from TotalEnergies’ Port Arthur platform. Reuters reported that a March 23, 2026 hydrotreater explosion reduced rates until a large crude unit restart targeted around May 1; that incident history is operating context, not a change to the facility identity. Do not present 150 MW as measured load, convert barrels per day into demand, or treat carbon-capture tonnage or renewable-diesel gallons as power. Current process load and flexibility remain unverified.