EPA: 4 new SRE petitions filed, 7 SRE petitions now pending
SOURCE: U.S. EPA
December 21, 2023
BY Erin Krueger
The U.S. EPA released updated small refinery exemption (SRE) data on Dec. 21, reporting that four new SRE petitions have been filed under the Renewable Fuel Standard in the past month. A total of seven SRE petitions are now pending.
The four newly filed SRE petitions are all for RFS compliance year 2023. They include petitions filed on Dec. 14 by Calumet Montana Refining and Calumet Shreveport Refining seeking waivers of 2023 RFS blending requirements for their respective facilities in Great Falls, Montana, and Shreveport, Louisiana. Hunt Refining Co. and Wynnewood Refining Co. filed SRE petitions on Dec. 15 seeking waivers for their 2023 blending requirements for their facilities located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Wynnewood, Oklahoma, respectively.
In addition to the four newly filed SRE petitions, EPA data shows one SRE petitions is pending for RFS compliance year 2022 and two are pending for RFS compliance year 2018. The EPA earlier this year began to publish company names and facility locations for SREs filed with the agency on or after July 1, 2022. That data shows that the pending SRE petition for 2022 was filed by Placid Refining Co., which is seeking a waiver of its RFS compliance year 2022 blending obligations for its facility in Port Allen, Louisiana. The two SRE petitions currently pending for RFS compliance year 2018 were filed prior to July 1, 2022. As such, the EPA’s SRE data dashboard does not contain information on the small refineries that filed those petitions.
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The EPA’s online SRE data dashboard also includes data on small refineries that have opted into the agency’s alternative renewable identification number (RIN) retirement schedule for the 2020 compliance year. According to the EPA’s online data dashboard, 17 small refineries are participating in the alternative RIN retirement schedule, with the total renewable volume obligation (RVO) for those refineries at 870 million RINs. A total of 500 million RINs have been retired under the alternative retirement schedule as of Dec. 21. The total outstanding RVO is currently at 380 million RINs, according to EPA’s data dashboard.
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