Blue Dolphin Energy Co. BDCO

What this company does

Blue Dolphin Energy Company is an independent downstream energy company that operates in the Gulf Coast region of the United States, with operations that primarily consist of a light sweet-crude, 15,000-bpd crude distillation tower and approximately 1.25 million barrels of petroleum storage tank capacity in Nixon, Texas. Neither the company nor its subsidiaries have any employees, and as of December 31, 2025, there were 112 employees of the Affiliate who provided support for its operations. The company's assets are organized into two business segments, refinery operations, also referred to as downstream operations, and tolling and terminaling services, also referred to as midstream operations, with a “Corporate and other” category made up of inactive Blue Dolphin subsidiaries. The Nixon refinery produces a single finished product, jet fuel, along with intermediate products including naphtha, HOBM, and AGO. The Nixon facility's petroleum storage tanks and infrastructure are primarily suited for crude oil and condensate and refined products such as naphtha, jet fuel, diesel, and fuel oil, and its storage customers are typically located in the lower portion of the Texas Triangle. Blue Dolphin was formed in 1986 as a Delaware corporation.

Written from the business description in Blue Dolphin Energy Company's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 31 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.