FINDLAY, Ohio -- Marathon Oil Corp. said that it has completed projects adding biodiesel blended fuel at its Robinson and Champaign, Ill. terminals.
Marathon is proud to announce that two more locations have been expanded to offer biodiesel storage and distribution. Similar to our existing biodiesel facilities in Minnesota and Kentucky, Robinson and Champaign feature in-line ratio blending in order to provide our customers with a blended, quality product, said Mary Ellen Peters, Marathon's senior vice president of marketing. Biodiesel helps us meet the [image-nocss] changing needs of our customers while supporting our nation's alternative fuels goals. Our focus continues to be on delivering the quality products our customer's desire.
The company will market soy-based B-2 (2% biodiesel) and B-11 (11% biodiesel) product from the terminals. Marathon began offering biodiesel at its St. Paul Park, Minn., terminal in July 2005 and at its Kramer's Lane (Louisville), Ky., terminal in February 2007.
Findlay, Ohio-based Marathon is the fourth-largest U.S.-based fully integrated international energy company engaged in exploration, production, refining, marketing and transportation operations. It is the fifth largest U.S. refiner with 974,000 barrels per day of crude processing capacity in its seven-refinery system. The company's retail marketing system comprises approximately 5,850 locations in 17 states; nearly three-quarters are Marathon-branded locations. Marathon serves the Midwest and Southeast as a petroleum products marketer with 87 light product and owns, operates, leases or has an ownership interest in approximately 9,900 miles of pipeline.
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