There is at least one facility in Alaska that has historically included Russian crude among its foreign imports — the Marathon Refinery in Kenai.
The goal is to cripple Russia’s economic power. Alaska, Hawaii and the West Coast of the U.S. together get between 300,000 and 7 million barrels of oil from Russia every month, according to data from the Not a lot of that supply heads to Alaska, although there is at least one facility in Alaska that has historically included Russian crude among its foreign imports — the Marathon Refinery in Kenai.
But Marathon isn’t currently importing Russian crude to power the refinery, said Kara Moriarty, head of the Alaska Oil and Gas Association. She said the facility stopped importing from the country around last year, though she isn’t exactly sure why.
Kara Moriarty, president and CEO of the Alaska Oil and Gas Association, at a House Resources Committee meeting Feb. 29, 2016. Moriarty said refineries like the Kenai facility will make decisions about where they source imports based on demand and the type of crude they need.“Those circumstances change pretty fluidly,” she said. “And so I don’t know any rationale for recent, but I know that’s been some of the rationale in the past.”