Trainer and Marcus Hook: totes in and out of the refinery pads
Trainer and Marcus Hook is the refinery pad of the metro: the Monroe Energy refinery next to Energy Transfer’s Marcus Hook natural gas liquids terminal. A ticket from here starts with the SDS.
01What sits here
Delta’s Monroe Energy refinery in Trainer is rated at 185,000 barrels a day and makes jet fuel, gasoline, diesel and heating oil. Beside it sits Energy Transfer’s Marcus Hook terminal for natural gas liquids. Petroleum refining, jet fuel, NGL storage and marine terminals are the district’s industries, and its single ZIP, 19061, covers both towns.
| ZIP codes | Industries here | Agency to ask about empties |
|---|---|---|
| 19061 | petroleum refining, jet fuel, natural gas liquids storage, marine terminals | Pennsylvania DEP |
02Who has empties, who needs totes
Totes from a refinery pad carry hazard, so the desk reads them as hazard-first tickets. The questions are what the totes held, whether the SDS is on file and how they were rinsed. A tote that held a fuel is no candidate for a food or water use, and gasoline never goes back into a plastic tote. The likely routes are washers, recyclers and chemical users.
03Roads, rules and the move
I-95 and US 13 run along the river through both towns, and the New Jersey side is a short run over the Commodore Barry Bridge from nearby Chester. The agency to ask is the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. The refinery and terminal work to their own programs, and the desk does not speak for them.
04Next door
| Place | ZIP codes | Industries |
|---|---|---|
| Chester | 19013, 19016 | marine terminals, waste-to-energy, manufacturing |
05On the ground
Trainer and Marcus Hook are small boroughs wrapped around large plants, and a driver arriving at the wrong gate loses time. A seller should name the gate, the guard post and the permit a driver must show. For a hazard-first ticket, add the shipping name from the SDS and the date the tote was last emptied, since the desk will ask for both before it replies.
06Weather, season and timing
Refinery and terminal sites run to safety schedules: shift changes, turnarounds and weather holds all stop outside trucks. A seller should say when the gate is open and whether the site has a maintenance shutdown scheduled. A driver may need a safety orientation before entering, and the desk expects the seller to arrange it and to tell the buyer.
07A ticket from here
- Put one of the ZIP codes from the first table on the ticket.
- State the product, the SDS and the rinse before the count.
?Questions on this page
Do Trainer refinery totes go to the desk?
The desk makes no claim about any plant. A ticket from a pad here is read like any other: last contents first.
What is the ZIP for Trainer and Marcus Hook?
19061.
Sources
Last reviewed 2026-11-11. Rules change; read the current text before you act on it.