Renewable Fuels

Biofuels and other renewable energy resources increase the diversity of supply in the U.S.  Marathon Petroleum Company LP (MPC) is investing in the manufacturing, blending and distributing of biofuels; a growing component in the U.S. transportation fuel mix.

For more than 20 years, MPC has been a leading blender of corn-based ethanol, a primary renewable fuel in the U.S.  We have the capability to blend approximately 1.2 billion gallons of ethanol per year and to sell ethanol-blended gasoline across all of our light product gasoline terminal facilities in 17 states.

MPC has also invested in the manufacture of ethanol through a 50 percent interest in a facility in Ohio and a 35 percent interest in a facility in Indiana. Each plant has capacity to manufacture 110 million gallons of ethanol per year.

MPC is also studying opportunities in next-generation biofuels and has invested $10 million in a company that will identify, patent and deploy microbes and low-cost processes for producing cellulosic ethanol from a range of feedstocks. Next-generation biofuels are those produced from feedstocks that have no food value or are grown on land that cannot be used for producing food.