Marathon Petroleum Q4 2024 Earnings Report

Marathon Petroleum EPS Results

• Actual EPS: $0.77
• Consensus EPS: $0.06
• Beat/Miss: Beat by +$0.71
• One Year Ago EPS: $3.98

Marathon Petroleum Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $33.47 billion
• Expected Revenue: $31.94 billion
• Beat/Miss: Beat by +$1.53 billion
• YoY Revenue Growth: -9.10%

Marathon Petroleum Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q4 2024
• Date: 2/4/2025
• Time: Before Market Opens
• Conference Call Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2025
• Conference Call Time: 11:00AM ET

Marathon Petroleum (NYSE:MPC) is a leading American petroleum refining, marketing and transportation company headquartered in Findlay, Ohio. The company’s core business involves refining crude oil into end products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel and petrochemical feedstocks. Its integrated operations span from crude procurement through transportation and distribution, supporting reliable supply chains for both wholesale and retail customers.

Marathon Petroleum operates several high-capacity refineries located in key energy hubs across the United States, including facilities in Texas, Louisiana, California and North Dakota. These refineries process a variety of crude types and employ advanced technologies to produce fuels and specialty products that meet industry and environmental standards. The company’s logistics network comprises pipelines, marine terminals, railcars and tanker trucks, enabling efficient movement of feedstocks and refined products nationwide.

In the downstream segment, Marathon Petroleum markets fuel under the Marathon, Marathon Platinum and Sunoco brands, serving motorists through an extensive network of company-operated and branded dealer stations. The company also owns and operates the Speedway convenience store chain, offering fuel, food-service items and retail merchandise. Through its investment in MPLX LP, a midstream energy partnership, Marathon Petroleum holds interests in gathering pipelines, storage terminals and fractionation facilities, providing additional fee-based revenue and operational synergies.

Formed in 2011 as a spin-off from Marathon Oil, Marathon Petroleum has grown through strategic mergers and acquisitions, most notably the acquisition of Andeavor in 2018, which expanded its refining capacity and geographic footprint. The company is led by President and Chief Executive Officer Michael J. Hennigan and a senior management team focused on operational excellence, safety, environmental stewardship and disciplined capital allocation across its integrated energy operations.

Marathon Petroleum Q4 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Safety & Environmental: Achieved the lowest company‐wide OSHA recordable injury rate and strongest environmental performance in five years, highlighting MPC’s focus on safe, reliable operations.
• Refining & Marketing: Delivered full‐year adjusted EBITDA of $5.33 per barrel with 92% utilization and 99% commercial capture, driving peer‐leading profitability across the Gulf Coast, Mid‐Continent and West Coast regions.
• MPLX (Midstream): Grew adjusted EBITDA by 6% year‐over‐year, increased its distribution by 12.5% (third consecutive year ≥10% growth), and achieved a 7% CAGR in EBITDA since 2021.
• Capital & Returns: Generated $8.7 billion in net cash from operations in 2024, returned $10.2 billion to shareholders (23% capital return yield), and has $780 million remaining under its share repurchase authorization.
• Strategic Investments: Plans $1.25 billion in 2025 CapEx at MPC (30% sustaining, >30% average IRR for growth projects) and $2 billion at MPLX to expand its NGL value chain, targeting mid‐teen returns.

Presentation

[Operator]

Welcome to the MPC Fourth Quarter twenty twenty four Earnings Call. My name is Amanda, and I will be your operator for today's call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. Later, we will conduct a question and answer session. Please note that this conference is being recorded.

[Operator]

I would now turn the call over to Christina Kazarian. Christina, you may begin.

[Kristina Kazarian, Vice President, Investor Relations at Marathon Petroleum]

Welcome to Marathon Petroleum Corporation's fourth quarter twenty twenty four earnings conference call. The slides that accompany this call can be found on our website at marathonpetroleum.com under the Investor tab. Joining me on the call today are Mary Anne Mannin, CEO John Quaid, CFO and other members of the MPC and MPLX executive teams. We invite you to read the Safe Harbor statements on Slide two. We will be making forward looking statements today.

[Kristina Kazarian, Vice President, Investor Relations at Marathon Petroleum]

Actual results may differ. Factors that could cause actual results to differ are included there as well as in our filings with the SEC. I wanted to quickly highlight our new segment reporting, which includes a Renewable Diesel segment. We believe this expanded level of reporting will enhance our comparability with our peers and provide you with more insight into our financial performance and capital allocation decisions. Previously, the results of the Renewable Diesel business were included in our Refining and Marketing segment.

[Kristina Kazarian, Vice President, Investor Relations at Marathon Petroleum]

For your reference, Slides twenty four and twenty five provide illustrations of this reporting change, and we have provided recast historical financials in our investor packet available on our website. With that, I will turn the call over to Mary Anne.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

Thanks, Christina, and good morning. Let me take a moment to highlight a few elements of our performance that we were most that were most relevant to our results. In 2024, we executed on our strategic commitments.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

First and foremost, we achieved our lowest company wide OSHA recordable injury rate and strongest environmental performance in the last five years, demonstrating our commitment to safety and reliability. Over the full year, we delivered Refining and Marketing segment adjusted EBITDA per barrel of $5,.33 Our commitment to operational excellence, commercial performance and peer leading profitability per barrel in each of the regions in which we operate drove our strong results with refining utilization of 92% and commercial capture of 99%. Our midstream segment, which is where we report MPLX's results, grew adjusted EBITDA by 6% year over year. In 2024, increased its quarterly distribution by 12.5%, driving an annualized cash distribution to MPC of $250,000,000,0.0 This was the third consecutive year of distribution growth of 10% or greater. This was the fourth consecutive year of MPLX generating mid single digit adjusted EBITDA growth.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

Since 2021, we've grown adjusted EBITDA at a compound annual rate of 7%. Our full year net cash from operations was $870,000,000,0.0 This enabled peer leading capital return of $1,020,000,000,0.0 and a 23% capital return yield for our shareholders in a business where there is significant value in the ability to return capital to shareholders. The global macro environment continues to deliver refined product demand growth and we expect 2025 will be another year of record refined product demand. In our domestic and export businesses, we have seen steady year over year demand for gasoline and diesel and growth in demand for jet fuel. Refining margins exhibited their typical season weakness.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

We expect margins will improve in the of this year as announced to refinery closures offset recent capacity additions. Leveraging our fully integrated refining system and geographic diversification across the Gulf Coast, Mid Con and West Coast regions, we are well positioned to perform in this dynamic market environment. Longer term, we believe fundamentals support an enhanced mid cycle environment for refining as we expect demand growth to exceed the net impact of capacity additions and rationalizations through the end of the decade. We expect The U. S.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

Refining industry to remain structurally advantaged over the rest of the world, mainly due to the availability of low cost energy. We remain steadfast in our commitment to safely and reliably operate our assets and protect the health and safety of our employees, business partners and the community in which we operate. Our high complexity refining assets and our domestic and international logistical and commercial capabilities further increase our global competitive advantage. We are committed to achieving peer leading profitability in every region in which we operate. And over the past several years, we have acted to advance on this commitment.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

We have made sustained structural changes to improve our cost competitiveness, while maintaining safe and reliable operations. Throughout our commercial organization, we are improving value chain optimization with a more integrated and advanced approach to our execution. We made disciplined investments in our refining and marketing value chains targeted to enhance margins, reduce costs and optimize systems. Across all three of our regions, we see the results of these actions. Along The U.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

S. Gulf Coast, where 42% of our capacity exists, we have more than 1200000.0 barrels per day of refining capacity, which leverage feedstocks and logistics flexibility to provide a wide range of products to meet U. S. And export demand. 40% of our capacity is defined as our U.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

S. Mid Con region. We have eight refineries with a total capacity of 1200000.0 barrels per day, which capture market opportunities by leveraging our access to advantage feedstocks, logistics and optimization of our large integrated value chain in the region. The remaining 18 of our capacity resides along The U. S.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

West Coast anchored by our 365000 barrel per day Los Angeles refinery in its fully integrated value chain, which benefits from feedstock and product optionality and a highly competitive marketing business. Our commitment to safe and reliable operations, operational excellence and commercial performance position us to deliver peer leading financial performance irrespective of the market environment. Our disciplined capital investments have also strengthened our competitiveness in each of the regions in which we operate. Looking into 2025, we believe our planned capital investments will further enhance MPC's position well into the future. MPC's capital outlook for 2025, excluding MPLX, totals $1,250,000,000,.00 Underpinning our commitment to safety performance and environmental stewardship, sustaining capital is approximately 30% of capital spend.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

Investments in our refining and marketing segment are focused on value enhancing and cost reduction opportunities with expected returns averaging around 30%. Renewable diesel capital spend in 2025 is limited and will be focused on sustaining current operations. I'll provide some details on three of our major multi year projects that meet our criteria for investment. We are progressing the distillate hydratereater project at Galveston Bay, where we are investing to construct a 90000 barrel per day high pressure distillate hydratereater. Once in service, the new distillate hydratereater will upgrade high sulfur distillate to ultra low sulfur diesel, allowing us to place product in this higher value market.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

This project is expected to be completed by and generate a return of over 20%. The Los Angeles Refinery is a core asset in our West Coast value chain and one of the most competitive refineries in the region. This low carbon refining investment once completed is expected to further enhance its competitiveness by integrating and modernizing utility systems to improve reliability and increase energy efficiency. Additionally, a portion of the improvements address a regulation mandating emissions reductions for all Southern California refineries. The improvements are expected to be completed by the end of this year.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

We expect to generate a return on our investments of approximately 20%. The Robinson product flexibility project is expected to further extend the competitive position of our Mid Con value chain by shifting yields to higher value products. This investment will increase the Robinson Refinery's flexibility to maximize jet production to meet growing demand. We expect the project to be completed by the and generate a return of approximately 25%. The strategic investments at our Galveston Bay, Los Angeles and Robinson refineries ensure we provide the clean burning fuels the world demands and further strengthen the competitive positions of our U.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

S. Gulf Coast, West Coast and Mid Con value chains. This morning, MPLX also announced its 2025 capital outlook of $2,000,000,000 including $170,000,000,0.0 of growth capital and $300,000,000 of maintenance capital. Approximately 85% of its growth capital will be allocated to investments to grow MPLX's natural gas and NGL businesses in support of expected increased producer activity. MPLX is investing to expand its Permian to Gulf Coast integrated NGL value chain, progressing long haul pipeline projects and grow Permian and Marcellus processing capacity.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

MPLX anticipates mid teen returns on its growth capital outlook, which will extend the durability of its mid single digit growth profile. Over the last four years, on average, we have grown our midstream segment adjusted EBITDA by almost 7% per year. The growth of MPLX's cash flows combined with its strong distribution coverage and low leverage provides MPLX considerable financial flexibility. We believe MPLX is positioned for additional distribution increases like the 12.5% announced in 2024 in the future. MPLX reached a significant milestone in its NGL well head to water value chain strategy with the announcement of a project to construct the Gulf Coast Fractionation Complex and Export Terminal.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

MPLX's fully integrated NGL value chain connects the Permian to the Gulf Coast and will supply growing global demand for LPGs. The multi year two point five billion dollars investment in the fractionation complex and export terminal complements MPLX's existing asset base and leverages existing infrastructure. MPLX will build and operate the Gulf Coast Fractionation Complex consisting of two one hundred and fifty thousand barrel per day facilities and a 400000 barrel per day LPG export terminal, all of which will be located adjacent to MPC's Galveston Bay refinery. MPLX has entered into joint venture agreements with One Oak for the export terminal and a bidirectional purity pipeline between Mount Bellevue and Texas City. One Oak will market its 200000 barrels per day and provide connectivity to Mount Bellevue storage, enhancing the competitiveness of the terminal.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

We also believe this strategic partnership with One Oak will create additional optionality and value for our customers. We also see it as a platform for future collaboration and growth across our Gulf Coast assets. MPLX plans to market methane production from the fracs to both existing and new customers. Leveraging our strategic relationship with MPLX, MPC plans to contract with MPLX to purchase the remaining LPG production from the fracs, which MPC will market globally through its existing market businesses via the new export terminal. The fractionation facilities are expected to be in service in 2028 and 2029 and the export terminal is expected to be in service in We anticipate mid teen returns on the project, which is expected to begin generating EBITDA when placed in service in 2028 and will ramp through the February,.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

Additionally, we believe the expansion of our Gulf Coast NGL value chain will create a platform for optimization and incremental growth opportunities. Our capital allocation priorities remain consistent. Our number one priority is sustaining capital. We remain steadfast in our commitment to safely operate our assets and protect the health and safety of our employees and the communities in which we operate. We are committed to paying a secure, competitive and growing dividend.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

We will invest where we believe there are attractive returns, which will enhance our competitiveness and position MPC well into the future. Beyond these three objectives, we will return all excess capital through share repurchases. As of the end of the year, we had $780,000,000,0.0 remaining under our share repurchase authorization, highlighting our commitment to superior shareholder returns. The durable and growing cash flow of MPLX differentiates MPC from peers. MPLX is strategic to MPC's portfolio and therefore its value proposition.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

We expect distributions from MPLX in 2025 will cover MPC's dividend and standalone capital outlook. Operating cash flow generated by our refining and marketing and renewable diesel segments are expected to be available for capital return through share repurchases. With our highly advantaged refining business and the $250,000,000,0.0 annualized distribution from MPLX, we are positioned to lead peers in capital returns through all market cycles. Let me turn the call over to John.

[John Quaid, Executive VP & CFO at Marathon Petroleum]

Thanks, Mary Anne. Moving to the and full year highlights, Slide 14 provides a summary of our financial results. This morning, we reported adjusted earnings per share of $0,.77 for the and $9,.51 for the full year. Adjusted EBITDA was approximately $210,000,000,0.0 for the quarter and $1,130,000,000,0.0 for the year. Refining and Marketing segment adjusted EBITDA per barrel was $2,.03 for the quarter and $5,.33 for the year.

[John Quaid, Executive VP & CFO at Marathon Petroleum]

Cash flow from operations, excluding working capital changes, was $170,000,000,0.0 for the quarter and nearly $820,000,000,0.0 for the year. And during the quarter, we returned $2.92,000,000 dollars to shareholders through dividends and repurchased nearly 1300000000.0 of our shares. Slide 15 shows the sequential change in adjusted EBITDA from and the reconciliation between net income and adjusted EBITDA for the quarter. Adjusted EBITDA was lower sequentially by approximately $400,000,000 driven by decreased results in our Refining and Marketing segment, slightly offset by improved results for our Midstream and Renewable Diesel segments. The tax rate for the quarter was 12%, largely reflecting the earnings mix between our R and M and Midstream businesses.

[John Quaid, Executive VP & CFO at Marathon Petroleum]

Moving to our Refining and Marketing segment results for the on Slide 16. Lower crack spreads, mainly in the Mid Con region, were the primary driver for lower R and M margins in the Our refineries ran at 94% utilization, processing nearly 2800000.0 barrels of crude per day and refining operating costs were $5,.26 per barrel in the Turning to Slide 17, solid commercial execution as well as typical seasonal tailwinds drove capture of 119%. We leveraged the scale of our fully integrated system in all three regions to capture margin opportunities across our entire value chain from feedstocks to products. We are committed to improving our commercial performance and believe we are building capabilities that will provide sustained incremental value and will produce results that can be seen in our financials. Slide 18 shows our Midstream segment performance for the quarter.

[John Quaid, Executive VP & CFO at Marathon Petroleum]

Our Midstream segment continues to deliver cash flow growth. As segment adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was up nearly 5% sequentially. MPLX, which is the largest portion of our midstream segment, remains a source of durable growth as it progresses its mid single digit adjusted EBITDA growth strategy. Slide 19 presents the elements of change in our consolidated cash position for the Operating cash flow, excluding changes in working capital, was $170,000,000,0.0 in the quarter, driven by both our refining and midstream businesses. Working capital was a $4.97,000,000 dollars source of cash for the quarter, primarily driven by benefits from inventory reductions and a decrease in refined product prices.

[John Quaid, Executive VP & CFO at Marathon Petroleum]

Capital expenditures, investments and acquisitions were $9.35,000,000 dollars for the quarter. Cash was utilized to repay $1,150,000,000,.00 of MPLX senior notes that matured in Dec. 0. And MPC returned almost $130,000,000,0.0 through share repurchases, exclusive of excise tax payments, and $2.92,000,000 dollars in dividends during the quarter. At the end of the year, MPC had approximately $320,000,000,0.0 in consolidated cash, including MPC cash of $170,000,000,0.0 and MPLX cash of $150,000,000,0.0 Turning to guidance, on Slide 20, we provide our outlook.

[John Quaid, Executive VP & CFO at Marathon Petroleum]

We are projecting crude throughput volumes of just over 2500000.0 barrels per day, representing utilization of 85. Turnaround expense is projected to be approximately $4.50,000,000 dollars in the with activity focused in the Gulf Coast and West Coast regions. For the full year, turnaround expenses are expected to be similar to last year at around $140,000,000,0.0 For the quarter, operating costs are projected to be $5.7 per barrel, distribution costs are expected to be approximately $150,000,000,0.0 and corporate costs are expected to be $2.20,000,000 dollars With that, let me pass it back to Mary Anne.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

Thanks, John. We are unwavering in our commitment to safe and reliable operations. Operational excellence, commercial execution and our cost competitiveness yield sustainable structural benefits and position us to deliver peer leading financial performance in each of the regions in which we operate. To deliver this, we will optimize our portfolio to deliver outperformance now and in the future, We'll leverage our value chain advantages and ensure the competitiveness of our assets, while we continue to invest in our people. Our execution of these commitments position us to deliver the strongest through cycle cash generation.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

Durable midstream growth is expected to deliver cash flow uplift and expected to deliver distribution increase going forward, a differentiator from our peers. Investing capital where we believe there are attractive returns will enhance our competitiveness now and in the future. We are committed to leading in capital allocation and will return excess capital through share repurchases. MPC is positioned to create exceptional value through peer leading performance, execution of our strategic commitments and its compelling value proposition. Let me turn the call back over to Christina.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

Thanks, Mary Anne. As we open the call for your questions, as a courtesy to all participants, we ask that you limit yourself to one question and a follow-up.

[Operator]

Our first question comes from Neil Mehta with Goldman Sachs. Your line is open.

[Neil Mehta, Head of Americas Natural Resources Equity Research at Goldman Sachs]

Yes. Thanks, Mary Anne and team. I guess the first question is just on the refining side. There was a $5.43,000,000 dollars positive capture impact in the quarter, 119% capture. And curious, how much of that was seasonal?

[Neil Mehta, Head of Americas Natural Resources Equity Research at Goldman Sachs]

Typically 4Q you tend to capture well versus commercial, anything you can do to kind of unpack it either regionally or in terms of what the underlying drivers of that capture beat?

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

Yes. Thanks, Neil. Good morning again. So look, as you know, and you look back over our last several over the past few years, our tends to be one of the strongest quarters. I think if you look at it over the last several years, we've averaged in a range of about 115, one hundred and 16.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

In general, as you know, when we look at capture, there are clearly things that we don't have control over and then there are the things that we do have control over. As we've been sharing, our objective is to approach 100%. This year on average, we reached 99% in the refining and marketing opportunity there. So clearly some things that we believe have been structural in the work that we've been doing, we've been sharing over the last couple of quarters and obviously some of those that have just normal activity. But I'm going to pass it to Rick because I think he's got a few things that he'll give you some specifics on.

[Rick Hessling, Chief Commercial Officer at Marathon Petroleum]

Yes. Hi, Neil. Let me start by saying thank you for calling this out. This is obviously a significant focus for us and the team executed extremely well in the So just a couple of nuggets for you. On the export side, Neil, we've been stating quarter after quarter that we're leaning into our export strategy and the was a great example of that.

[Rick Hessling, Chief Commercial Officer at Marathon Petroleum]

Our assets ran extremely well across the board and we were able to lean into our export strategy and set records on volume and margin. So that's a piece of the puzzle, Neil. And then secondly, an area that we don't speak much of is asphalt, but I will say we had great execution on the asphalt asphalt spreads and execute our strategies driven by strong asphalt retail sales. So those are just a couple of nuggets, Neil. There's many more, but I'll just leave you with those two.

[Neil Mehta, Head of Americas Natural Resources Equity Research at Goldman Sachs]

Thank you, Rick. And the follow-up is just on MPLX and the wellhead to water strategy. The mid teens returns that you're targeting on this, can you talk a little bit about some of the underlying assumptions? And is it fair to say that even though capital is coming in a little higher at the midstream side of the business, given the framework that you laid out here where the buyback is coming from the refining and renewable diesel business, higher MPLX spend won't impact the outlook for your ability to return capital?

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

Yes, Neal, certainly. Let me try to answer those questions for you. So first and foremost, when we think about this NGL well head to water strategy, you're right, we do expect mid teens returns. You may know that over the last several quarters, we have been talking about the opportunity set, but frankly, we've been looking at this project for a period of time. So underlying assumptions with respect to overall capital that we need to spend, timing of that, markets that we will serve, cost to get implemented are all things that we have considered and evaluate and evaluated to be sure that when we look at this project that we're confident in these mid single digit returns.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

I think the next project sorry, question that you asked was really about capital and whether or not the capital that we would be spending in MPLX has implications for MPC. So the answer to that is no. As you know, MPLX has really solid balance sheet flexibility. One, when you look at the debt to EBITDA ratio, we've talked about our ability to be kind of in the range plus or minus four times. We're somewhere in the range of three.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

So we absolutely have balance sheet flexibility there. Really all of that 2500000000.0 multi year capital in MPLX is largely MPLX. There's a 70,000,000 piece that is MPC. And then the last part of that is, as we continue to grow that MPLX distribution, you've heard me talk about the 12.5% increase. That's a 2500000000.0 distribution to MPC.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

It covers the 2025 dividend and the 2025 capital that we just announced of 1.25. Therefore, giving MPC the flexibility to return capital via share buyback. So balance sheet flexibility in MPLX will support the growth of those MPLX projects. Hope that gets

[Neil Mehta, Head of Americas Natural Resources Equity Research at Goldman Sachs]

you. Very clear. Thanks, Marianne.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

You are welcome.

[Operator]

Thank you. Our next question comes from Doug Leggate with Wolfe Research. Your line is open.

[Doug Leggate, Managing Director - Senior Research Analyst at Wolfe Research]

Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Good morning, Marianne. Fantastic result in refining despite breakeven. We actually see that bullish.

[Doug Leggate, Managing Director - Senior Research Analyst at Wolfe Research]

So well done. My question is, I hate to ask the obvious one, but we've got a thirty day delay now potentially on, I don't know if it's posturing or not, but the tariff situation, you guys are obviously a large consumer of heavy barrels. My question is, what would be your how are you planning for the contingency? What would the impact be? I'm thinking specifically about how does your plant adapt to a different diet of crude if you had to?

[Doug Leggate, Managing Director - Senior Research Analyst at Wolfe Research]

Framing it for us in whatever way you like, but we're obviously all trying to struggle with what it would actually mean if a tariffs were in fact introduced?

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

Yes. Good morning, Doug. Thanks for your question. Yes, it's interesting. Studying tariffs has been at the top of the list of things that we've been doing among many others like running the business, right?

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

But so when we think about the impact of tariffs, one, if they were to be imposed or not, it's still a variable question. We've got a highly integrated system and we've got a lot of optionality, and we'll use that optionality. Having said that, as you state, we do process a significant amount of heavy crude. And therefore, we think it's likely if tariffs were to be put in place in thirty plus days or not that we would see cost increases. We believe that the majority of that will ultimately be borne by the producer and then frankly to a lesser extent the consumer.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

We MPC will use our integrated system, our commercial excellence, our operational performance to really minimize the best that we can the margin impact to our financial results. That's our goal and we'll continue to evaluate. We're working with the administration and we're working with agencies as well as the trade associations to be sure that the right people understand the implications of these decisions. But with that, let me me pass it to Rick and he can give you a little more color on our diet.

[Rick Hessling, Chief Commercial Officer at Marathon Petroleum]

Yes. Doug, a very timely question as we have run scenario planning for every facility and market that we have coast to coast. So we're well versed in this as you might expect. And Mary Anne hit it well when she touched on our integrated system, our knowledge, our commercial performance. We believe we're in as good or better shape than anyone in the industry to absorb a tariff if it were to ever get put into place.

[Rick Hessling, Chief Commercial Officer at Marathon Petroleum]

And maybe a good example of that that I would want to unpack for you is in the Mid Con, we have worked tirelessly for a long time on our logistics capability and connectivity. So many of our refineries in our Mid Con region, we could look to pivot to alternative crudes because of our logistics capabilities and we're quite unique that way. And I would give you crudes to think of such as Bakken, Rockies, Utica, Marcellus as a few. So I want to leave you with every region is different, every refinery is different, but we believe that we have done the scenario planning to make this as least painful as possible. And in fact, we believe at the end of the day in most regions, if not all that we operate in, we'll have a competitive advantage against others who are running significant amounts of Canadian grades.

[Doug Leggate, Managing Director - Senior Research Analyst at Wolfe Research]

Rick, I appreciate the detailed answer from both of you. I wonder if I could just do a quick Part B on that. If you did displace heavy with a Bakken or similar crude, would that require utilization reduction?

[Rick Hessling, Chief Commercial Officer at Marathon Petroleum]

It may shift yields more than anything, Doug, and it could potentially impact utilization. However, I would lean you maybe ask you to as you look at yesterday as it played out, the market was quickly sending signals that it would quickly respond and absorb a lot of the indicators that would continue to make potentially a heavy barrel economic to run. As Mary Anne said, we do believe the producer will bear a large part of the impact. So I would say a light switch within our system, we believe would have minimal impact.

[Doug Leggate, Managing Director - Senior Research Analyst at Wolfe Research]

Thank you. Mary Anne, I've got a very quick follow-up, which is, I wanted to pick on one of your comments at the end of your prepared remarks. We will optimize our portfolio. I wonder if you could care to elaborate on what that means? And I'll leave it there. Thank you.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

Yes, certainly, Doug. You know for the last several years, one of our strategic pillars is to ensure the competitiveness of all of our assets that has been in place historically and will continue to be in place. We need to be sure that every one of our assets is delivering the cash flow that we expect and is part of our long term scenario for how we will operate in the future. So we'll continue to look at that all the time.

[Doug Leggate, Managing Director - Senior Research Analyst at Wolfe Research]

Thank you so much guys.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

You're welcome Doug. Thank you.

[Operator]

Thank you. Our next question comes from Manav Gupta with UBS. Your line is open.

[Manav Gupta, Executive Director at UBS Group]

Hey, Marianne, I wanted to congratulate you. I think when you took over the CEO, one of your key goals was that to fully fund the dividend and CapEx at MPC through MPLX. And our model got you there, but we got you there more in 'twenty six and 'twenty seven. We didn't have you getting there in 2025. So congratulations on that.

[Manav Gupta, Executive Director at UBS Group]

My question here is we think about MPC's buybacks as funded by RD and refining with MPLX funding the dividend and CapEx, but the projects that you announced today could put you on a distribution growth path of 12% for four or five years. So starting 2026, is it possible that MPLX distribution is not only funding the CapEx, the dividend, but also possible buybacks at MPC?

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

Thank you, Madhav. So we have been trying to demonstrate that our cash flows being generated at MPLX are durable and that we can put together capital as well as small M and A bolt on that can support mid single digit growth for a period of time. And hopefully today the announcement of our NGL strategy well head to water value chain isn't yet another example of that. In addition to some of the investments that we made in 2024 expansion of BANGL as an example, our Summit acquisition in the Utica and Wing to Webster. That 12.5 distribution increase that we announced in we also said we thought had the ability to be sustaining in similar nature for the next several years.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

So as we continue to grow, we certainly believe that distribution coming back to MPC gives us flexibility for peer leading capital allocation. We think it's a differentiator and certainly we believe that that growing distribution to MPC will allow us to increase our share repurchase in the future.

[Manav Gupta, Executive Director at UBS Group]

Perfect. My quick follow-up is a little bit on the West Coast. You and other refineries probably going to go down at the year end. There are some reports of an unplanned refinery downtime also in the first half now. So just trying to understand from your perspective the dynamics on the West Coast, understanding that the regulatory environment may not be the best, but from the perspective of supply demand, the region might still work for you.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

Yes. Actually, I think you said it well. As you know, we have made some commitments in investments. I talked about one of them here on the call this morning for our Los Angeles asset. One, we think it is a really efficiency capital investment.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

We also think obviously it meets the required NOx reduction emission requirements going forward and gives us incremental efficiency and profitability particularly in a low carbon environment. Certainly, we understand the challenges of doing business in this environment. You know this well. I mean, we have evaluated our ability to participate in this region for many, many years. Hence, the decision that we made back in 2020 to close Martinez as a fossil fuel refinery and then in early in 2021, the decision to convert it to renewable diesel.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

We're working closely with the agencies in the state to ensure that we understand and in similar fashion as I mentioned earlier through our trade associations also, really trying to understand and frankly influence be of help so that those making the regulatory decisions and the legislative decisions in the state have the facts that they need to make good decisions. We continue to believe our asset on the West Coast is one of the most competitive, particularly when you look at the integrated nature of it, the MPLX, as well as its ability to process various crudes, etcetera. So, yes, we continue to believe in the long term viability of that asset.

[Manav Gupta, Executive Director at UBS Group]

Thank you. I'll turn it over.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

Thank you.

[Operator]

Thank you. Our next question comes from Paul Cheng with Scotiabank. Your line is open.

[Paul Cheng, Analyst at Scotiabank]

Hey, Tim. Good morning. Good morning. Mary, this year, I think you guys saying that your turnaround cost is about $140,000,000,0.0 similar to last year, which is quite high. So trying to understand that, as a for the cycle, what's considered as a normal turnaround cost for you guys?

[Paul Cheng, Analyst at Scotiabank]

Is $140,000,000,0.0 is the new normal or this is considered somewhat of a high year year also?

[John Quaid, Executive VP & CFO at Marathon Petroleum]

Hey, good morning, Paul. It's John. I'll maybe start with that and then we'll see what follow ups you might have. Certainly, like you said, we're looking at 1.4 for this year, similar to last year's. If you look back over the last several years, it gets a little bit hard to see a run rate, right?

[John Quaid, Executive VP & CFO at Marathon Petroleum]

You would have had COVID where we really would have slowed down. That would have pushed some turnarounds to the right, if you will, into future years. We also continue to invest in our assets and change kind of the capacity of what we have. I mean, interestingly, if you go back pre COVID and post either shutting down or converting refineries, we're almost back to the same or more capacity than we were previously. So, I think all of those things are driving that number.

[John Quaid, Executive VP & CFO at Marathon Petroleum]

And again, and Tim and the team can speak to this, right? Those are scheduled outages that we have on a cycle that we're managing to that we need to get done. I think though I was trying to give you some factors though that are maybe driving the 1.4% we're seeing for this year.

[Paul Cheng, Analyst at Scotiabank]

John, thank you for that. How about what consider from your internal, The U. S. Standpoint will be more of a normal cycle, say, average for the cycle?

[John Quaid, Executive VP & CFO at Marathon Petroleum]

Yes, Paul. I don't know if it's helpful to get into. There's lots of things that can move that on the asset portfolio, where we are in the schedule. I think we're we've even kind of stepped into here just recently giving you the number for the year. We used to just kind of give you the number by quarter.

[John Quaid, Executive VP & CFO at Marathon Petroleum]

So, I think if you're okay with it, we might just stick with what we're looking at for this year, and then we'll speak to it as the year progresses.

[Paul Cheng, Analyst at Scotiabank]

Okay. The second question, I want to go back into the margin capture. California actually have done really well, yes. I mean, you we stay and took out renewable, so that improved or that helped the margin, but still it's very good. Typically that I think for the built in branding, California doesn't really benefit that much.

[Paul Cheng, Analyst at Scotiabank]

So trying to understand that, I think Rick mentioned about export and some of that. Is there any one off item in California for this quarter we should be aware? Or that, I mean, is there any other factor that you can point us to why that seems to be performing really well?

[John Quaid, Executive VP & CFO at Marathon Petroleum]

Hey, Paul, it's John. I'll start maybe then turn it over to Rick. I think one of the things we would call out, really I'll start with Tim and his team and how we ran the facilities in the quarter, strong utilization, really positioning us to then turn to Rick and his team to take that production to market across our really competitive value chain. So at a high, high level, I think that's what you're seeing and maybe I'll turn it over to Rick for any other details.

[Rick Hessling, Chief Commercial Officer at Marathon Petroleum]

Yes, Paul, maybe just to address the export comment. When I referenced our exports earlier, think of that as predominantly U. S. Gulf Coast. It's not that there weren't some exports going out of the West Coast, but they were minimal in terms of our overall portfolio.

[Rick Hessling, Chief Commercial Officer at Marathon Petroleum]

The only item that I would add to John's commentary is we often talk fully integrated value chain and our advantages in California. And in house, we talk refinery to retail. And we are one of the few out there that takes the value chain all the way to the end consumer. And that is a value driver that I think that we believe is showing up in capture that others aren't able to capture. So we see it as a differentiator, Paul.

[Paul Cheng, Analyst at Scotiabank]

Okay. Very good. Thank you.

[Rick Hessling, Chief Commercial Officer at Marathon Petroleum]

You're welcome. Thank you. Thank you, Paul.

[Operator]

Thank you. Our next question comes from Roger Read with Wells Fargo. Your line is open.

[Roger Read, Senior Energy Analyst at Wells Fargo Securities]

Yes. Thank you. Good morning.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

Good morning, Roger.

[Roger Read, Senior Energy Analyst at Wells Fargo Securities]

Good morning, Mary

[Roger Read, Senior Energy Analyst at Wells Fargo Securities]

Anne. To come back to your comments on the macro and that demand may exceed capacity as we see more closures within the industry, what's your view here looking at 25% in terms of demand as we think about gasoline, jet fuel and then diesel particularly we finally got a plus 50% on the ISM manufacturing for this past month?

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

Yes, sure, Roger. I'd say, look, you've heard us share our views, really no different. As we look at the long term, we absolutely remain constructive over the long term. We think 2025 is going to be another year of growth in refined product demand and we see that continuing through the decade. As you know in 2025, there's we've got supply coming online, two of which we know we've talked about Dangote, DAS BOCAS, clearly some challenges, particularly in the here and even in the with DAS BOCAS.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

And then there's probably about 800000 barrels a day that we think will be coming offline. One of them we know happening in the another one happening in the which probably won't have much impact in 2025. And then there's a few in well, I think one in Germany, couple in Scotland, Europe and then there's always really what happens with respect to China. So back half of the year, when we look at 2025, we think we should see improvement. We should see margins expanding.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

Frankly, we're beginning to see a little bit of that as seasonal unwind begins to occur. In our system, gasoline year over year has been fairly steady, diesel up slightly. And to your point, we've actually seen jet demand growth, which is what you would expect as well. So overall, we remain constructive long term. I think the back half could look better.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

China always an interesting dynamic to the extent that's better than we anticipate could be an accelerator. Obviously, some of the decisions that are being debated here with China would mute that and we'll have to wait and see what happens there. So I think that's how I would characterize it, Roger.

[Roger Read, Senior Energy Analyst at Wells Fargo Securities]

Appreciate that. And then maybe as an unrelated follow-up, obviously, a lot of things going on with the Trump administration on the tariffs and all, but there's also in the executive orders a lot of things to roll back a lot of let's call it pro sustainable energy or clean energy as it was advertised. What are some of the key things you're watching on that progress that may or may not be made during 2025?

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

Yes. Roger, here's what I would say. When we look at our sustainability initiatives, you look at Scope one, Scope two and even our Scope three absolute, we remain committed to those. And frankly, last year, we actually increased our target because we were making progress, particularly on methane as an example. So we'll continue to remain focused on delivering Scope one, Scope two.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

We'll evaluate what opportunities we have as we look at Scope three. The whole concept around renewable diesel, you heard me mention perhaps in my remarks that our focus in the short term is limiting the amount of capital that we're putting to work in renewable diesel. We'll certainly do what we need to ensure the sustainability and the reliability of that asset came up to nameplate capacity in the as we said. And we believe that as we look at 2025, that asset will be profitable. But again, as we look at, we'll watch the variables, just really in the whole renewable space.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

That is certainly one that we'll be looking at carefully as well. I'm going to pass to Jim and see if there is anything that Jim feels is that I've missed in our

[James Wilkins, Senior Vice President of Health, Environment, Safety & Security at Marathon Petroleum]

Roger, I agree with what Mary Anne said. I think we're going to remain steadfast kind of the middle of the fairway on our sustainability goals and metrics and kind of watch some of the variables.

[Roger Read, Senior Energy Analyst at Wells Fargo Securities]

Great. Appreciate it. Thank you.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

You're welcome, Roger. Thank you.

[Operator]

Thank you. Our next question comes from Jason Gabelman with TD Cowen. Your line is open.

[Paul Cheng, Analyst at Scotiabank]

Hey, good morning. Hey, Jason.

[Jason Gabelman, Analyst at TD Cowen]

Thanks for taking my question. Good morning. Hey. The first one on the buyback and the ability to generate cash beyond cash from ops at the parent company. I think you're going to be refinancing $7.50,000,000 dollars of debt at the parent.

[Jason Gabelman, Analyst at TD Cowen]

So should we think about that being available for use towards buybacks? And then any opportunity for buyback or sorry for drop downs from the parent down to the MLP, is that still an arrow in your quiver that you could use?

[John Quaid, Executive VP & CFO at Marathon Petroleum]

Hey, Jason, it's John. Yes, you're spot on the cash balance and that maturity, right? That was one that matured in Sept. 0. We decided to pay it off and mentioned at that time we'll be looking to refinance that at the right time, right?

[John Quaid, Executive VP & CFO at Marathon Petroleum]

So you've got $7.50,000,000 dollars of cash that's coming back onto the balance sheet that's available for allocation. I'll let Mary Anne speak to the drops.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

Yes, Jason, with respect to the drops, there is a few assets that sit on the MPC side that we believe ultimately belong rightfully so in the midstream business. When we or if we consider these drops, in the past, they have certainly not been a priority for several reasons that you know well. But if and when we consider these drops, we want to be sure that we're clear these drops would not count, if you will, with respect to our commitment for MPLX to have mid single digit growth. This EBITDA is currently in the system. We would make that drop to be sure that the assets are positioned properly in the business.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

Having said that, that cash on the MPC side could certainly be used to continue to buy back stock in particular when we look at the valuation today versus our long term opportunity set and the value creation that we think we can generate in MPC, that cash could be put to good use on the MPC side, but would not count we would not do that. It would not count against MPLX's mid single digit growth objective because that EBITDA is already in our system. Hope that helps.

[Jason Gabelman, Analyst at TD Cowen]

Yes, got it. Understood. Do you have an estimate for the amount of EBITDA that could potentially be dropped down?

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

Jason, when we if and when we do a drop, we'll be sure that we give you good clarity, so you understand how not to include that in the growth. But we'll share that with you when the time comes. All right, great.

[Jason Gabelman, Analyst at TD Cowen]

And my follow-up is just a quick one. I noticed in the press release, there wasn't a quarter to date buyback figure for I think that's the first time you've excluded that figure in the press release for a handful of quarters, if not two years. Do you have that figure handy? And was there a reason that you decided to exclude it this quarter?

[John Quaid, Executive VP & CFO at Marathon Petroleum]

Hey, Jason, it's John. Let me try and answer that for you and maybe too, it's kind of where you were going a little bit of history. Certainly, if you go back in time, post the Speedway sale, post the significant change in margins, we were returning a significant amount of capital and really wanted to lean in and share with you all what that first month of the quarter looked like as we've kind of approached a more normalized balance sheet, even as we continued to provide that, you've also heard us say, hey, one month isn't really indicative of what the repurchases might be for the entire quarter. So I think just as we're pivoting now, we decided maybe now's the time that that number maybe isn't as useful as it had been in the past. So hopefully that you can understand kind of our change in view there.

[Jason Gabelman, Analyst at TD Cowen]

Yes, that's great. Thanks for explaining that.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

Thanks, Jason.

[Operator]

Thank you. Our next question comes from John Royal with JPMorgan. Your line is open.

[John Royall, Executive Director at JP Morgan]

Hi, good morning. Thanks for taking my question. So my first question is on 2024 MPC level CapEx. The $1,520,000,000,.00 for 2024 came in a bit above the original $1,250,000,000,.00 guide. And it looks in particular like a big 4Q.

[John Royall, Executive Director at JP Morgan]

I was just hoping you could help us bridge the difference between the guide from a year ago and where you ended up?

[John Quaid, Executive VP & CFO at Marathon Petroleum]

Hey, morning, John. It's John. Let me try and give you a little bit more color there. Really, I think what we saw were a couple of things. And I'll start with, you've heard Rick talk about how we're going to market in our fully integrated value chain.

[John Quaid, Executive VP & CFO at Marathon Petroleum]

And frankly, we saw some really strong opportunities to invest some capital to drive cash flow in the marketing side of our business. That was probably the majority or a larger portion of what drove that. But we also had some opportunities across the refining base where we saw some projects that we could put money to. So I'd just give you that as some color, where again we saw those opportunities and wanted to take advantage of them as we continue to look to drive cash flow growth of the Refining and Marketing business.

[John Royall, Executive Director at JP Morgan]

Okay. Thank you. And then my next question is on Renewable Diesel margins. There's a lot of uncertainty in the regulatory environment right now. I was just hoping for your thoughts on RD margins early in 2025 and how you think the 45Z could ultimately play out?

[Rick Hessling, Chief Commercial Officer at Marathon Petroleum]

Yes. Hi, John. This is Rick. So with Martinez fully online, as we stated earlier, we continue to expect EBITDA contribution going forward. As you saw in the release, we were positive $28,000,000 in So we really have a good stable environment and we have a great team executing our feedstocks and our product distribution.

[Rick Hessling, Chief Commercial Officer at Marathon Petroleum]

With that being said, as you said, there remains a lot of uncertainty in this space and it continues to evolve, right? When you think of our new administration, how does 45 Z get implemented or does it and at what pace? And then when you have the BTZ expiry, I would tell you I would not make a prediction, but here's what I would say. We will control what we can control. And from a feedstock optimization perspective, we're procuring advantaged feedstocks with low CIs and then placing them as you would certainly expect us to in the highest margin markets possible. So won't pretend to say we have

[Operator]

Thank you. Our next question comes from Theresa Chen with Barclays. Your line is open.

[Theresa Chen, Senior Analyst at Barclays]

Hi. Can you talk about how much LPG export currently exists within your system just off of your refining assets in the Gulf Coast and maybe the West Coast? And following the FID of the NGL infrastructure projects and MPC's role in marketing those LPGs, what kind of economic uplift would you expect this to bring to MPC either in terms of capture or EBITDA?

[Rick Hessling, Chief Commercial Officer at Marathon Petroleum]

Hi, Theresa, it's Rick. Thank you for the question. So when we look at our current footprint, what I'll do without giving you specific numbers is tell you that our footprint and our ability to export once the dock is fully commissioned and we're up and running will be significant. We will attack global buyers and we will go to market in a diversified approach. And what I mean by that is, is we'll go term, we'll go spot, a percentage term, a percentage spot, a percentage FOB versus delivered.

[Rick Hessling, Chief Commercial Officer at Marathon Petroleum]

And then from an EBITDA perspective, we have a variety of ranges. It depends on what the market is at that point in time, but we are bullish in this environment with the Chinese PDH units and the global worldwide demand, I would say we have a very optimistic view forward.

[Theresa Chen, Senior Analyst at Barclays]

Got it. And as a quick follow-up, are you is MPC also marketing one portion of the terminal facility, the volumes coming out of the terminal facility? Or is it just MPLX's fifty percent interest?

[Rick Hessling, Chief Commercial Officer at Marathon Petroleum]

MPC is just marketing the 50% of the dock. One Oak will be marketing their own barrels.

[Theresa Chen, Senior Analyst at Barclays]

Thank you.

[Rick Hessling, Chief Commercial Officer at Marathon Petroleum]

Thank you, Theresa.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

Thank you, Theresa.

[Operator]

Thank you. Our last question will come from Matthew Blair with Tudor, Pickle Holt. Your line is open.

[Matthew Blair, Managing Director at TPH&Co]

Great. Thank you for the questions and congrats on the strong results. You mentioned record product exports and we are seeing things like industrial production improve in several Latin American countries, with I guess the exception of Mexico. My question is, could you contrast demand trends in The U. S.

[Matthew Blair, Managing Director at TPH&Co]

Versus your overseas market? And if you have any sort of a split between gasoline and diesel, that would be helpful too. Thanks.

[Rick Hessling, Chief Commercial Officer at Marathon Petroleum]

Yes, Matt. So what I would tell you is where we're seeing significant demand signals is all things Latin America and Europe. Those are the biggest signals we're seeing. Demand growth is more robust than we have seen in a while. And then when you look at where we are from a split perspective, gas versus diesel, I will tell you diesel has been pretty steady, but we are seeing a significant uplift in gas export demand.

[Matthew Blair, Managing Director at TPH&Co]

Sounds good. And then turning back to the renewable diesel segment, with the 45Z coming in, does this change anything in regards to your RD feedstocks? And I guess in particular, are you looking to run less vegetable oils going forward? And do you run any imported EUCO? And if so, would you scale that back going forward?

[Rick Hessling, Chief Commercial Officer at Marathon Petroleum]

So great question. I would tell you so what we're looking to do is maximize low CI stocks, feedstocks. And with that, that plays right in to the 45Z on what would be the most maximum feedstock we could run and get credit for and apply towards the 45Z. So I think that's the best way to share that, Matt.

[Matthew Blair, Managing Director at TPH&Co]

Sounds good. Thank you. Matt,

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

it's Mary Anne. Just maybe one other comment, if I could, when we think about Martinez as well. As I mentioned earlier, we brought the asset to full nameplate capacity in the that's 48000 a day. You know we share that now with Neste. One of the advantages of being at full nameplate is our ability to operate the PTU.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

And you know part of the strategic rationale with our developing this long term relationship with Neste, in particular for Martinez, was to be able to optimize the feedstock. And so we think that will be a value driver as well into 2025 as we're now able to look at given the amount of volume that's in place, but be able to look at where those opportunities exist through the commercial lens in addition to the incentives that are obviously still critical for profitability. Hope that addresses your question, Matt.

[Matthew Blair, Managing Director at TPH&Co]

It does. Thank you.

[Maryann Mannen, President & CEO at Marathon Petroleum]

You're welcome.

[Kristina Kazarian, Vice President, Investor Relations at Marathon Petroleum]

All right. With that, thank you for your interest in Marathon Petroleum Corporation. Should you have more questions or want clarification on topics discussed this morning, please contact us and our team will be available to take your calls. Thank you for joining us today.

[Operator]

That concludes today's conference. Thank you for participating. You may disconnect at this time.

Participants

Executives

• Kristina Kazarian, Vice President, Investor Relations
• Maryann Mannen, President & CEO
• John Quaid, Executive VP & CFO
• Rick Hessling, Chief Commercial Officer
• James Wilkins, Senior Vice President of Health, Environment, Safety & Security

Analysts

• Neil Mehta, Head of Americas Natural Resources Equity Research at Goldman Sachs
• Doug Leggate, Managing Director - Senior Research Analyst at Wolfe Research
• Manav Gupta, Executive Director at UBS Group
• Paul Cheng, Analyst at Scotiabank
• Roger Read, Senior Energy Analyst at Wells Fargo Securities
• Jason Gabelman, Analyst at TD Cowen
• John Royall, Executive Director at JP Morgan
• Theresa Chen, Senior Analyst at Barclays
• Matthew Blair, Managing Director at TPH&Co