Tesoro Martinez Refinery — United States
Refinery in United States. Approximate location 38.02608, -122.06412.
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Tesoro Martinez Refinery is a refinery in United States. Refineries heat, fractionate and chemically transform crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through energy-intensive distillation and cracking — extremely demanding on steam generation and heat recovery.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1753392.
Data status
Known source data
Calculated from the dataset
Not available
Source data, measured cross-checks and calculated values are kept separate. No confidence percentage is invented.
Operating power plants within 50 km
- Foster Wheeler Martinez · Gas · 114 MW · 0 km
- Marathon Bay Area Cogen · Gas · 114 MW · 1 km
- CCCSD Wastewater Treatment Plnt · Gas · 4 MW · 3 km
- Martinez Refining · Gas · 100 MW · 4 km
- Martinez Sulfuric Acid Regeneration Plt · Cogeneration · 4 MW · 4 km
PowerAtlas operating assets, ordered by great-circle distance from published coordinates.
In context: how this facility compares
Subsector: oil-and-gas-refining. As refinery, it requires high process heat (typically 200–600°C) for its core industrial operations, supplied by boilers, furnaces or direct combustion. Refineries heat, fractionate and chemically transform crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through energy-intensive distillation and cracking — extremely demanding on steam generation and heat recovery.
Capacity & CO₂-intensity comparison computed from Climate TRACE industrial facilities data; sector role based on engineering reference.
Parent company
Marathon Petroleum Corp US EPA GHGRP
Parent company per US EPA GHGRP; the operator itself is not stated in the source dataset.
Local climate
Tesoro Martinez Refinery sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate zone (Köppen Csb), at 38.0°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
Site climate & environmental severity
This site sits in a moderately corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C3 — Medium), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.
In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1348 W/m² to ambient — roughly 1.04× the loss at a 20 °C reference. Reference-surface calculation at a 150 °C surface from WorldClim climate normals (ASTM C680 / ISO 12241) — an indicative per-climate comparison, not a measurement of this site’s specific equipment. Open method dataset: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20787408 (CC BY 4.0).
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
How it compares & nearby sites
Nearby industrial sites
- TESORO REFINING AND MARKETING COMPANY GOLDEN EAGLE REFINERY · Chemical Plant · 519,415 t CO₂
- AIR PRODUCTS & CHEMICALS, INC, Tesoro Martinez · Chemical Plant · 87,289 t CO₂
- Martinez Renewable Fuel Facility · Chemical Plant · 182,461 t CO₂
- AIR PRODUCTS & CHEMICALS INC MARTINEZ WATERFRONT ROAD · Chemical Plant · 664,568 t CO₂
- Air Products West Coast Hydrogen - HP-1 · Chemical Plant · 473,078 t CO₂
- PBF Martinex Refinery · Refinery · 2,041,620 t CO₂
Location
Coordinates 38.02608, -122.06412. View on OpenStreetMap.
Frequently asked questions
What type of facility is Tesoro Martinez Refinery?
Tesoro Martinez Refinery is a refinery in United States. Refineries heat, fractionate and chemically transform crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through energy-intensive distillation and cracking — extremely demanding on steam generation and heat recovery.
Where is Tesoro Martinez Refinery located?
Tesoro Martinez Refinery is in United States at approximately 38.02608, -122.06412.