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Employee Raises Breast Cancer Awareness Year-Round

Although October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, you will almost always find Juliana Robinson, an operations tech at Marathon Petroleum’s Detroit Asphalt Terminal, wearing some form of pink no matter what time of year it is, and for her, it’s personal. “I started wearing a pink hard hat when a former co-worker’s mother was […]

Marathon Petroleum wraps successful Fueling Detroit Event Series

Marathon Petroleum is committed to supporting the community surrounding our Detroit refinery, specifically the people living in the 48217 zip code. From June to October, the refinery hosted the Fueling Detroit Event Series, four community events that included a family movie night, the Southwest Detroit Farmers Market, Back to School Blitz, and the Health and Harvest Fair. The events were held at the Kemeny Recreation Center and nearly 250 guests attended each one. In […]

Fueling Detroit: Health and Harvest Fair

We are bringing our “Fueling Detroit” series to a close this year with our last Kemeny event of the year – the Health and Harvest Fest! On Saturday, October 9th we’re excited to bring multiple health care providers to the neighborhood, in one spot! With our many partners, this event will have free health screenings, […]

Fueling Detroit: SW Farmers Market

On August 14th, the Detroit refinery’s Detroit Forward team hosted its second installment of the Kemeny Fueling Detroit series with the Southwest Detroit Farmers Market. The event featured 36 local businesses from SW Detroit and the greater downriver area. Over 200 residents attended the event, along with quite a few MRD employees stopping by to […]

Refinery Status

Due to a short power interruption just before 11am this morning, operating conditions at the refinery have required intermittent flaring. Flares are safety devices that allow for the safe combustion of excess materials in the event of non-routine operating conditions. The refinery is currently operating safely. The root cause of the power interruption is being investigated. The refinery has deployed its air monitoring team in the community as a precautionary measure. Air monitoring has indicated no impact to the community.

Update – Aug. 25, 2021 at 1 a.m.

As an update to our previous notification, Marathon Petroleum’s Detroit Refinery has secured the incident at the refinery and has communicated updates to the appropriate government agencies. We do not expect any off-site impact to the surrounding community, and the refinery’s air monitoring resources will be in the community for the next several hours as a precaution. Our priority is to ensure the safety of the surrounding community and an investigation will be conducted to determine the cause of the incident.

Detroit refinery responding to a release

Marathon Petroleum’s Detroit Refinery is responding to a release. Air monitoring resources are being deployed in the community. We are providing further details to government agencies. We will keep these agencies and emergency responders informed as we respond. Our priority is to ensure the safety of the surrounding community and to limit environmental impact. More information will be provided when it becomes available.

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