According to the United States Energy Information Administration (EIA), the domestic operable atmospheric crude distillation capacity averaged 18.6 mb/d (million barrels per calendar day) as of January 2018, which is almost identical to the data recorded in January 2017 (+0.1%) and 0.95 mb/d more than in 2009. However, the utilization rate increased from 83% in 2009 to 91% in 2017.
Even though the number of operating refineries went down from 141 to 135 between January 2017 and January 2018, the refinery operating capacity did not change accordingly since two refineries were reclassified from idle to shut down and four refineries previously treated as separate were merged into two.
Gross crude oil inputs to US refineries averaged 16.6 mb/d in 2017 compared with 14.3 mb/d in 2009. The US crude oil production which was accommodated in the domestic refineries totalled 9.4 mb/d (+4.1 mb/d compared with 2009). Net imports reached 6.8 mb/d in 2017 (7.3 mb/d in 2016). Over the same period, US crude oil imports dropped by 1.1 mb/d while oil exports soared evenly by 1.1 mb/d.
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