Marathon Petroleum Corp. has renewed and expanded a long-term contract with Praxair Inc., Danbury, Conn., for supply of hydrogen to Marathon’s 571,000-b/d Galveston Bay refinery in Texas City, Tex.
The newly renewed and expanded contract entails long-term delivery of reliable hydrogen supplies to support production of clean fuels at the refinery, to which Praxair has been supplying industrial gases since 1985, the service provider said.
Praxair, however, disclosed no further details regarding the extended contract.
Marathon’s Galveston Bay refinery recently reached substantial engineering completion for the Tier 3 gasoline sulfur standard reconfiguration project at the site that, upon completion in 2019, will enable the refinery to achieve updated US Environmental Protection Agency Tier 3 gasoline sulfur standards by 2020 and provide cleaner fuel to US markets (OGJ Online, June 20, 2018).
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