by Mr Link » June 5, 2023, 7:13 pm
I too have heard that they ship out petroleum coke. The US Army Corps of Engineers shows that 271,000 tons of petcoke was shipped out of Toledo in 2020, but it doesn't list which dock.
Some of that petcoke likely comes from the nearby refineries, but I read somewhere that much of it is coming from Marathon in Detroit. When they expanded and re-configured the Marathon refinery in Detroit a few years ago, it switched to using mostly crude from the Alberta oil sands as feedstock. That source creates a lot more petcoke than lighter crudes. Initially they were shipping out the petcoke from docks on the Detroit River, but it was stockpiled on the docks without any covers and the dust was blowing all over the Detroit area and into Windsor. That created so many complaints that they were forced to stop shipping it out of Detroit. So now it is trucked to Toledo and shipped from there.
I too have heard that they ship out petroleum coke. The US Army Corps of Engineers shows that 271,000 tons of petcoke was shipped out of Toledo in 2020, but it doesn't list which dock.
Some of that petcoke likely comes from the nearby refineries, but I read somewhere that much of it is coming from Marathon in Detroit. When they expanded and re-configured the Marathon refinery in Detroit a few years ago, it switched to using mostly crude from the Alberta oil sands as feedstock. That source creates a lot more petcoke than lighter crudes. Initially they were shipping out the petcoke from docks on the Detroit River, but it was stockpiled on the docks without any covers and the dust was blowing all over the Detroit area and into Windsor. That created so many complaints that they were forced to stop shipping it out of Detroit. So now it is trucked to Toledo and shipped from there.