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Here you will find information about a Marathon Petroleum Company LLC (MPC) refinery and pipeline project that will create jobs and produce a more stable supply of petroleum products for Michigan motorists.
The Detroit Heavy Oil Upgrade Project (Detroit HOUP) will add new equipment at Marathon’s Detroit refinery – Michigan’s only refinery – to process heavier crude oil from Canada. This project will increase the refinery's capacity from approximately 102,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 115,000 bpd, adding more than 400,000 gallons per day of clean transportation fuel to the marketplace.
Construction on the refinery portion of the Detroit HOUP began June 20, 2008 and completion is expected in the fourth quarter of 2010.
The project also will require a new section of pipeline in Monroe County and a portion of Wayne County to deliver additional supplies of Canadian crude to the refinery in southwest Detroit. This new section of 24-inch pipeline, approximately 29 miles long, will replace an existing 16-inch section of active pipeline that currently crosses portions of Monroe and Wayne counties. Pipeline construction is scheduled to begin in the spring of 2009.
MPC is committed to openly communicating with neighbors and concerned governmental jurisdictions to keep them informed as the project moves forward.