Trainer Refinery
 Location of the Trainer Refinery
Location of the Trainer Refinery
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| Country | United States |
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| State | Pennsylvania |
| City | Trainer |
| Coordinates | 39°49′20″N 75°24′16″W / 39.82222°N 75.40444°WCoordinates: 39°49′20″N 75°24′16″W / 39.82222°N 75.40444°W |
| Refinery details | |
| Operator | Monroe Energy, LLC |
| Owner(s) | Delta Air Lines |
| Capacity | 185,000 bbl/d (29,400 m3/d) |
Trainer Refinery is an oil refining facility located in Delaware County, Pennsylvania near the communities of Trainer, Marcus Hook, and Chester. The facility is about ten miles southwest of Philadelphia along the Delaware River. The Trainer Refinery is owned by Monroe Energy, LLC, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines. Monroe Energy acquired the facility in June 2012. Since that time, the company has focused on producing high-quality transportation fuels at the refinery. In addition to jet fuel, the facility also produces gasoline, diesel, and home heating oil.
In 1891, the Union Petroleum Company leased 17 acres in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, from the Reading Company. The first plant, constructed primarily of wood, burned down in 1912. Union Petroleum Company was bought out by Sinclair Oil Corporation, which purchased the original lease and an additional 242 acres of land adjacent to Trainer, Pennsylvania. On March 17, 1925, Sinclair Oil opened its new $7 million state-of-the-art facility with a projected gasoline production of 6,000 gallons per day (approximately 22,712 liters).
In the late 1940s, Sinclair went through a number of expansions, notably the installation of a fluid catalytic cracking unit. In 1955, the company installed two new crude stills. According to the 1955 Sinclair Oil Annual Report, these expansions gave the plant an estimated crude processing capacity of 120,000 BPD (Barrels per Day).ARCO acquired the company in 1969 and, shortly thereafter, sold the refinery to BP, which then transferred the formal ownership to SOHIO. These transactions were a part of deals for the Alaskan Pipeline. The refinery then underwent a modernization expansion at an estimated cost of $200 million. BP took total ownership of the refinery after absorbing SOHIO in 1987.
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