Facilities · US Gulf
Motiva Port Arthur refining complex (geography context)
Role: refinery recovery geography. Public USGS and open-news context.
Motiva Enterprises Port Arthur, Texas, is among the largest US refining complexes and sits in the Louisiana-Texas Gulf recovery geography that USGS credits with roughly half of US elemental sulfur output. Motiva does not publish a clean public Mt/a elemental sulfur sales line used by Sulfur Wire; treat this page as location context for Gulf Coast recovery and molten/solid logistics, not a capacity survey.
Public figure: not disclosed (plant) Mt/a (industry_context). Use USGS LA+TX share and US elemental totals for macro scale.
Logistics: Recovered sulfur may enter molten domestic or solid export channels depending on site kit and contracts.
Nodes
- Port Arthur refining complex: Port Arthur, Texas (recovery)
Heavy/sour processing capability historically associated with material sulfur recovery in Gulf refining; site-specific sulfur marketing path varies.
2021–2026 history
- 2025: USGS MCS 2026: Louisiana and Texas about 54% of US elemental sulfur production (~7.6 Mt US elemental).
Regional shares are not plant capacities. Not investment advice.