Petro Star INC. North Pole Refinery
Total reported releases 2k lb held roughly steady year over year (+1%). Total releases concentrations are up 11% since 2015.
1200 H & H LN, North Pole, Alaska · 324110 · Petroleum · operated by Arctic Slope Regional CORP
Notable Signals
No notable signals at this facility for the current reporting year. See chemicals and equity context below for the full picture.
What This Facility Releases
Benzene
Benzene concentrations have fallen 15% since 2015.
n-Hexane
n-Hexane concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2015.
Xylene (mixed isomers)
Xylene (mixed isomers) concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2015.
Polycyclic aromatic compounds
Polycyclic aromatic compounds concentrations have more than doubled since 2015.
Naphthalene
Naphthalene concentrations have more than doubled since 2022.
Ethylbenzene
Ethylbenzene concentrations have fallen 10% since 2015.
Mercury And Mercury Compounds
Mercury And Mercury Compounds volumes here are too small to anchor a multi-year trend; YoY movement is still shown above.
Ethylene glycol
Ethylene glycol volumes here are too small to anchor a multi-year trend; YoY movement is still shown above.
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (5 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 9,730. Why we surface this →
Low-income
People of color
Under age 5
Over age 64
Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics, population-weighted across the 3-mile buffer around this facility (from USEPA-clone/EJAM-open blockgroupstats). Indicator-level percentile and EJ-disparity scores are surfaced on the county page and the state page — they describe wider regional exposure burdens, not effects attributable to a single facility.
Source. EPA Toxics Release Inventory · retrieved 2026-05-07. Reporting year 2024. TRI is a federal public-domain dataset under 17 USC §105.
What this is not. TRI quantifies releases reported by the facility under EPCRA §313 — not ambient air or water concentrations measured at receptors. We do not attribute individual health outcomes to specific facilities; that exceeds what the data can support.