This plant is currently the only refinery in Washington state unable to accommodate tight oil via rail.

The permitting process is currently underway for the proposed 60,000 b/d unloading capacity of the East Gate Rail Project.

Shell and Texaco combined their refining and marketing operations, assets valued at $17 billion, in 1997.

At the neighbor refinery, meanwhile, Tesoro, an independent Texas-based midstream and downstream company, won bidding for the old Shell Anacortes Refinery at $237 million, with an additional payment of $60 million for net working capital.

[9][2] As of 2022 it has a capacity of 149,000 barrels a day and serves customers in the Pacific Northwest, including British Columbia, as well as the major international air and sea ports in the region.