Year-over-year total releases
Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.
Facility detail
VALERO REFINING-TEXAS LP CORPUS CHRISTI WEST PLANT
5900 UP RIVER RD, CORPUS CHRISTI, TX, 78407
Parent company: VALERO ENERGY CORP
Carcinogen
PBT
— EPA classifications across all reporting years
Top chemical totals
The 10 chemicals with the highest cumulative on-site releases in pounds (lbs) across all available years.
Full release table
Rows are years. Columns show the five highest-total chemicals across all years plus each year's total release volume.
| All values in pounds (lbs) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | Hydrogen cyanide | Methanol | Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | Methyl tert-butyl ether | Total (lbs) |
| 2024 | 311,620 | 382,162 | 3 | 42,422 | — | 878,672 |
| 2023 | 322,071 | 381,845 | 3 | 42,798 | — | 909,057 |
| 2022 | 138,527 | 470,643 | 3 | 52,508 | — | 975,543 |
| 2021 | 138,923 | 518,619 | 3 | 57,612 | — | 833,663 |
| 2020 | 137,216 | 551,226 | 3 | 61,483 | — | 877,091 |
| 2019 | 125,806 | 486,670 | 107 | 63,384 | — | 811,484 |
| 2018 | 125,806 | 417,345 | 69 | 55,074 | — | 798,721 |
| 2017 | 128,366 | 476,455 | 55 | 62,446 | — | 819,512 |
| 2016 | 121,468 | 462,815 | 2,116 | 60,913 | — | 772,989 |
| 2015 | 121,807 | 488,482 | 1,568 | 63,805 | — | 782,248 |
| 2014 | 121,005 | 486,510 | 1,983 | 63,586 | — | 823,216 |
| 2013 | 431,808 | 376,372 | 2,511 | 56,316 | — | 1,009,350 |
| 2012 | 331,959 | 475,956 | 3,976 | 65,506 | — | 1,075,101 |
| 2011 | 43,799 | — | 5,847 | 62,936 | — | 298,662 |
| 2010 | 323,718 | — | 1,615 | 66,413 | — | 559,519 |
| 2009 | 226,830 | — | 6,472 | 56,563 | — | 439,457 |
| 2008 | 779,229 | — | 6,771 | 12,474 | — | 1,641,543 |
| 2007 | 740,220 | — | 7,571 | 29,601 | 13,100 | 929,493 |
| 2006 | 809,937 | — | 42,195 | 53,139 | 60,617 | 1,103,592 |
| 2005 | 889,156 | — | 65,346 | 59,037 | 62,927 | 1,200,992 |
| 2004 | 853,673 | — | 85,239 | 66,400 | 81,348 | 1,191,448 |
| 2003 | 336,189 | — | 55,469 | 21,628 | 87,452 | 613,367 |
| 2002 | 329,638 | — | 81,546 | 10,958 | 92,224 | 628,030 |
| 2001 | 317,962 | — | 27,465 | 14,753 | 79,779 | 574,784 |
| 2000 | 289,640 | — | 15,236 | 47,671 | 95,653 | 549,240 |
| 1999 | 274,713 | — | 901,043 | 51,666 | 128,043 | 1,490,164 |
| 1998 | 271,219 | — | 987,763 | 49,998 | 81,636 | 1,461,659 |
| 1997 | 62,554 | — | 3,728 | 51,689 | 63,728 | 242,891 |
| 1996 | 68,265 | — | 5,246 | 47,140 | 55,743 | 241,112 |
| 1995 | 60,150 | — | 5,428 | 38,373 | 50,401 | 305,316 |
| 1994 | — | — | 11,588 | 38,700 | 46,730 | 199,679 |
| 1993 | — | — | 1,700 | 21,445 | 24,676 | 164,796 |
| 1992 | — | — | 1,479 | 21,080 | 136,261 | 286,517 |
| 1991 | — | — | 1,317 | 19,332 | 16,014 | 53,584 |
| 1990 | — | — | 1,333 | 21,255 | 15,859 | 63,136 |
| 1989 | — | — | 1,129 | 21,500 | 16,057 | 54,690 |
| 1988 | — | — | 1,300 | — | 15,250 | 113,410 |
| 1987 | — | — | — | — | 74,700 | 78,424 |
▎ Facilities report to EPA's TRI once they manufacture, process, or use a listed chemical above set thresholds. Once that threshold is crossed, they must report actual releases regardless of size — so a small number reflects genuine low-level discharge, not a data error.