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Oil Refineries
The following information on active oil refineries comes from the Energy Information Administration. Total in the US is 149 refineries. For more specifics, such as refinery owner and capacity of individual refineries, go to This Page, click on a state, and then click on "petroleum overview" on the state page. The list is in order of total capacity in 2005. States not listed, such as New York, Florida, and Arizona, do not have any refineries. EIA Information on individual refineries.
Oil refining company quiz
US total refining capacity = 17,125,000 barrels of oil per day. Of this, 19.5 gallons per barrel, or about 44% (the most that can be made) becomes gasoline: 7,535,000 barrels of gasoline, times 42 gallons per barrel = 316,470,000 gallons of gasoline capable of being refined each day. Although most refineries are operating at near capacity (say 95% to 98% of capacity), any shutdown (hurricane or otherwise) obviously affects this total. In March 2005, US gasoline consumption was 320,500,000 gallons per day. You do the math.
UPDATE: According to this EIA page, US gasoline consumption in 2004 averaged 382,400,000 gallons per day - meaning we must import almost 66 million gallons of gasoline each and every day, in addition to imported crude oil.
| STATE | Number of Refineries | Capacity, barrels per day, 2005 |
| Texas | 23 | 4,628,000 |
| Louisiana | 17 | 2,773,000 |
| California | 21 | 2,005,000 |
| Illinois | 4 | 896,000 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | 770,000 |
| Washington | 5 | 616,150 |
| New Jersey | 4 | 615,000 |
| Ohio | 4 | 551,400 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | 484,961 |
| 10. Indiana | 2 | 433,000 |
| Alaska | 6 | 373,000 |
| Mississippi | 4 | 364,800 |
| Minnesota | 2 | 335,000 |
| Kansas | 3 | 296,200 |
| Kentucky | 2 | 227,500 |
| Montana | 4 | 181,200 |
| Tennessee | 1 | 180,000 |
| Delaware | 1 | 175,000 |
| Utah | 5 | 167,350 |
| 20. Wyoming | 5 | 152,000 |
| Hawaii | 2 | 147,500 |
| Alabama | 2 | 113,500 |
| New Mexico | 3 | 112,600 |
| Colorado | 2 | 87,000 |
| Arkansas | 2 | 76,800 |
| Michigan | 1 | 74,000 |
| Virginia | 1 | 58,600 |
| North Dakota | 1 | 58,000 |
| Wisconsin | 1 | 33,000 |
| 30. West Virginia | 1 | 19,400 |
| Nevada | 1 | 1,707 |