Energy Mechanics · Refining · Throughput & yield

What the refineries
are doing right now

REFINING · 5 PADDs
RELEASE · EIA WPSR
VINTAGE · —
NEXT WPSR · —
FLOWS · MB/D · UTIL %
STATUS · LOADING
132 operable refineries with combined 18 mb/d of atmospheric distillation capacity are running at — utilization. Throughput is — mb/d. Yield is roughly 50% gasoline, 30% distillate, 10% jet, and 10% other — slightly tilted toward gasoline vs world average because the U.S. fleet was built around American driving demand.
Crude input Gasoline Distillate Jet & other
UTILIZATION BY PADD REFINERY · NATIONAL YIELD MIX PADD 1 · East cap 0.8 mb/d — PADD 2 · Midwest cap 4.1 mb/d — PADD 3 · Gulf cap 9.7 mb/d — PADD 4 · Rockies cap 0.7 mb/d — PADD 5 · West cap 2.7 mb/d — REFINERY INPUTS · MB/D — util · — · cap 18.0 Gasoline — mb/d · — of barrel Distillate (diesel) — mb/d · — of barrel Jet fuel — mb/d · — of barrel Other products — resid + LPG + asphalt + coke PROCESSING GAIN · — mb/d (volume swell from cracking) Sum of yields exceeds inputs by ~5% — that's processing gain, the volume swell from light products
Refinery throughput
—
mb/d · crude in
—
National utilization
—
of 18.0 mb/d capacity
Gasoline yield
—
— of barrel
Distillate yield
—
— of barrel
3-2-1 crack spread
—
refining margin · $/bbl · "the canary"
SOURCE · U.S. Energy Information Administration, Weekly Petroleum Status Report (Table 2, refiner and blender inputs and outputs) and Refinery Capacity Report (annual operable atmospheric distillation capacity by PADD). PADD utilization is throughput ÷ capacity. Per-PADD throughput allocations approximate the national EIA total until PADD-level series are wired into update_data.py.
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