Year-over-year total releases
Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.
Facility detail
SUNCOR ENERGY COMMERCE CITY REFINERY
5801 BRIGHTON BLVD, COMMERCE CITY, CO, 80022
Parent company: SUNCOR ENERGY (USA) INC
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 | Propylene | Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | n-Hexane | Hydrogen cyanide | Total (lbs) |
| 2024 | 19,847 | 47,571 | — | 5,255 | 29,594 | 137,268 |
| 2023 | 16,819 | — | — | 14,329 | 22,373 | 84,839 |
| 2022 | 23,605 | — | — | 5,274 | 22,735 | 87,830 |
| 2021 | 12,759 | — | — | 3,767 | 23,959 | 74,526 |
| 2020 | 12,760 | 11,038 | — | 2,976 | 21,984 | 78,330 |
| 2019 | 14,797 | 9,766 | — | 3,263 | 33,032 | 100,011 |
| 2018 | 11,708 | 7,998 | — | 4,285 | 41,107 | 100,180 |
| 2017 | 17,055 | 34,669 | — | 4,070 | 41,174 | 135,980 |
| 2016 | 11,988 | 65,102 | — | 11,475 | 41,591 | 168,344 |
| 2015 | 19,227 | 81,657 | — | 17,640 | 44,016 | 201,126 |
| 2014 | 21,635 | 45,127 | — | 9,280 | — | 111,327 |
| 2013 | 4,701 | 72,757 | — | 10,249 | — | 117,771 |
| 2012 | 3,758 | 78,280 | — | 13,783 | — | 149,407 |
| 2011 | 2,153 | 33,022 | — | 33,166 | — | 107,673 |
| 2010 | 3,385 | 16,870 | 9,867 | 24,501 | — | 66,960 |
| 2009 | 5,328 | 16,669 | 20,716 | 25,745 | — | 84,215 |
| 2008 | 10,443 | 20,804 | 27,070 | 26,705 | — | 101,840 |
| 2007 | 7,706 | 1,625 | 36,571 | 19,963 | — | 79,234 |
| 2006 | 9,761 | 2,363 | 30,367 | 19,292 | — | 76,087 |
| 2005 | 12,525 | 1,269 | 72,962 | 20,202 | — | 120,023 |
| 2004 | 4,437 | — | 36,571 | 11,102 | — | 59,200 |
| 2003 | 1,036 | 24,736 | — | 2,373 | — | 36,774 |
| 2002 | 21,402 | 23,682 | 61,067 | 20,510 | — | 138,078 |
| 2001 | 21,110 | 24,877 | 56,897 | 14,337 | — | 129,527 |
| 2000 | 13,318 | 27,461 | 66,548 | 14,869 | — | 133,958 |
| 1999 | 22,155 | 23,515 | 61,019 | 16,605 | — | 135,126 |
| 1998 | 84,435 | 14,995 | — | 18,708 | — | 142,044 |
| 1997 | 75,933 | 18,084 | — | 20,481 | — | 144,667 |
| 1996 | 80,343 | 17,328 | — | 18,561 | — | 153,633 |
| 1995 | 74,250 | 31,000 | — | 5,700 | — | 151,638 |
| 1994 | 69,240 | — | — | — | — | 131,456 |
| 1993 | 80,230 | — | — | — | — | 168,188 |
| 1992 | 51,390 | — | — | — | — | 143,611 |
| 1991 | 25,540 | — | — | — | — | 113,643 |
| 1990 | 13,000 | — | — | — | — | 90,388 |
| 1989 | 56,000 | — | — | — | — | 193,478 |
| 1988 | — | — | — | — | — | 290,457 |
| 1987 | 53,000 | — | — | — | — | 288,285 |
▎ 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.