U.S. refinery capacity reaches 18 million barrels per day

Increased refinery runs—based on increases in both capacity and utilization—have helped accommodate increases in U.S. crude oil production. The United States' capacity to refine crude oil into petroleum products—measured as operable atmospheric crude distillation unit capacity—increased by 0.2% in 2014, reaching 18.0 million barrels per calendar day, according to EIA's recently released annual Refinery Capacity Report.