Cover and table of contents

10-K 1 mpc-20171231x10k.htm 10-K

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

(Mark One)

x	ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2017

OR

¨	TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from to

Commission file number 001-35054

Marathon Petroleum Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware		27-1284632
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

539 South Main Street, Findlay, OH 45840-3229

(Address of principal executive offices)

(419) 422-2121

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act

Title of Each Class		Name of Each Exchange on Which Registered
Common Stock, par value $.01		New York Stock Exchange

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes þ No ¨

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes ¨ No þ

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15 (d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes þ No ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes þ No ¨

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. þ

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See definition of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

Large accelerated filer þ Accelerated filer ¨ Non-accelerated filer ¨ Smaller reporting company ¨ Emerging growth company ¨

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act). Yes ¨ No þ

The aggregate market value of Common Stock held by non-affiliates as of June 30, 2017 was approximately $26.4 billion. This amount is based on the closing price of the registrant’s Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange on June 30, 2017. Shares of Common Stock held by executive officers and directors of the registrant are not included in the computation. The registrant, solely for the purpose of this required presentation, has deemed its directors and executive officers to be affiliates.

There were 476,059,729 shares of Marathon Petroleum Corporation Common Stock outstanding as of February 16, 2018.

Documents Incorporated By Reference

Portions of the registrant’s proxy statement relating to its 2018 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, are incorporated by reference to the extent set forth in Part III, Items 10-14 of this Report.

MARATHON PETROLEUM CORPORATION

Unless otherwise stated or the context otherwise indicates, all references in this Annual Report on Form 10-K to “MPC,” “us,” “our,” “we” or “the Company” mean Marathon Petroleum Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries.

Table of Contents

			Page
PART I
	Item 1.	Business	4
	Item 1A.	Risk Factors	23
	Item 1B.	Unresolved Staff Comments	32
	Item 2.	Properties	33
	Item 3.	Legal Proceedings	43
	Item 4.	Mine Safety Disclosures	44
PART II
	Item 5.	Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities	45
	Item 6.	Selected Financial Data	46
	Item 7.	Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations	47
	Item 7A.	Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk	76
	Item 8.	Financial Statements and Supplementary Data	79
	Item 9.	Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure	142
	Item 9A.	Controls and Procedures	142
	Item 9B.	Other Information	142
PART III
	Item 10.	Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance	143
	Item 11.	Executive Compensation	143
	Item 12.	Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters	144
	Item 13.	Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence	144
	Item 14.	Principal Accountant Fees and Services	144
PART IV
	Item 15.	Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules	145
	Item 16.	Form 10-K Summary	151
		SIGNATURES	152

GLOSSARY OF TERMS

Throughout this report, the following company or industry specific terms and abbreviations are used:

ASC	Accounting Standards Codification
ASR	Accelerated share repurchase
ATB	Articulated tug barges
barrel	One stock tank barrel, or 42 United States gallons liquid volume, used in reference to crude oil or other liquid hydrocarbons.
bcf/d	One billion cubic feet per day
DEI	Designated Environmental Incidents
EBITDA (a non-GAAP financial measure)	Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortization
EIA	United States Energy Information Administration
EPA	United States Environmental Protection Agency
FASB	Financial Accounting Standards Board
FCC	Fluid Catalytic Cracking
FERC	Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
GAAP	Accounting principles generally accepted in the United States
IDR	Incentive Distribution Right
LCM	Lower of cost or market
LIBO Rate	London Interbank Offered Rate
LIFO	Last in, first out
LLS	Louisiana Light Sweet crude oil, an oil index benchmark price
mbpd	Thousand barrels per day
mbpcd	Thousand barrels per calender day
Mcf	One thousand cubic feet of natural gas
mmbpcd	Million barrels per calender day
MMcf/d	One million cubic feet of natural gas per day
MMBtu	One million British thermal units per day
NYMEX	New York Mercantile Exchange
NYSE	New York Stock Exchange
NGL	Natural gas liquids, such as ethane, propane, butanes and natural gasoline
PADD	Petroleum Administration for Defense District
OPEC	Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OSHA	United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OTC	Over-the-Counter
ppb	Parts per billion
ppm	Parts per million
RFS2	Revised Renewable Fuel Standard program, as required by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007
RIN	Renewable Identification Number
ROUX	Residual Oil Upgrader Expansion
SEC	United States Securities and Exchange Commission
STAR	South Texas Asset Repositioning
TCJA	Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
ULSD	Ultra-low sulfur diesel
USGC	U.S. Gulf Coast
UST	Underground storage tank
VIE	Variable interest entity
VPP	Voluntary Protection Program
WTI	West Texas Intermediate crude oil, an oil index benchmark price

Disclosures Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This Annual Report on Form 10-K, particularly Item 1. Business, Item 1A. Risk Factors, Item 3. Legal Proceedings, Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk, includes forward-looking statements. You can identify our forward-looking statements by words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “could,” “design,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “goal,” “guidance,” “imply,” “intend,” “may,” “objective,” “opportunity,” “outlook,” “plan,” “position,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “prospective,” “pursue,” “seek,” “should,” “strategy,” “target,” “will,” “would” or other similar expressions that convey the uncertainty of future events or outcomes. In accordance with “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, these statements are accompanied by cautionary language identifying important factors, though not necessarily all such factors, that could cause future outcomes to differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements.

Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements that relate to, or statements that are subject to risks, contingencies or uncertainties that relate to:

•	future levels of revenues, refining and marketing margins, operating costs, retail gasoline and distillate margins, merchandise margins, income from operations, net income or earnings per share;

•	anticipated volumes of feedstock, throughput, sales or shipments of refined products;

•	anticipated levels of regional, national and worldwide prices of crude oil, natural gas, NGLs and refined products;

•	anticipated levels of crude oil and refined product inventories;

•	future levels of capital, environmental or maintenance expenditures, general and administrative and other expenses;

•	the success or timing of completion of ongoing or anticipated capital or maintenance projects;

•	business strategies, growth opportunities and expected investments

•	our share repurchase authorizations, including the timing and amounts of any common stock repurchases;

•	the adequacy of our capital resources and liquidity, including but not limited to, availability of sufficient cash flow to execute our business plan;

•	the effect of restructuring or reorganization of business components;

•	the potential effects of judicial or other proceedings on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows; and

•	the anticipated effects of actions of third parties such as competitors, activist investors or federal, foreign, state or local regulatory authorities or plaintiffs in litigation.

We have based our forward-looking statements on our current expectations, estimates and projections about our industry and our company. We caution that these statements are not guarantees of future performance, and you should not rely unduly on them, as they involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that we cannot predict. In addition, we have based many of these forward-looking statements on assumptions about future events that may prove to be inaccurate. While our management considers these assumptions to be reasonable, they are inherently subject to significant business, economic, competitive, regulatory and other risks, contingencies and uncertainties, most of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond our control. Accordingly, our actual results may differ materially from the future performance that we have expressed or forecast in our forward-looking statements. Differences between actual results and any future performance suggested in our forward-looking statements could result from a variety of factors, including the following:

•	volatility or degradation in general economic, market, industry or business conditions;

•	availability and pricing of domestic and foreign supplies of natural gas, NGLs and crude oil and other feedstocks;

•	the ability of the members of the OPEC to agree on and to influence crude oil price and production controls;

•	availability and pricing of domestic and foreign supplies of refined products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, home heating oil and petrochemicals;

•	foreign imports and exports of crude oil, refined products, natural gas and NGLs;

•	refining industry overcapacity or under capacity;

•	changes in producer customers’ drilling plans or in volumes of throughput of crude oil, natural gas, NGLs, refined products or other hydrocarbon-based products;

•	changes in the cost or availability of third-party vessels, pipelines, railcars and other means of transportation for crude oil, natural gas, NGLs, feedstocks and refined products;

•	changes to our capital budget, expected construction costs and timing of projects;

•	the price, availability and acceptance of alternative fuels and alternative-fuel vehicles and laws mandating such fuels or vehicles;

•	fluctuations in consumer demand for refined products, natural gas and NGLs, including seasonal fluctuations;

•	political and economic conditions in nations that consume refined products, natural gas and NGLs, including the United States, and in crude oil producing regions, including the Middle East, Africa, Canada and South America;

•	actions taken by our competitors, including pricing adjustments, expansion of retail activities, the expansion and retirement of refining capacity and the expansion and retirement of pipeline capacity, processing, fractionation and treating facilities in response to market conditions;

•	completion of pipeline projects within the United States;

•	changes in fuel and utility costs for our facilities;

•	failure to realize the benefits projected for capital projects, or cost overruns associated with such projects;

•	modifications to MPLX LP earnings and distribution growth objectives;

•	the ability to successfully implement growth opportunities, including strategic initiatives and actions;

•	risks and uncertainties associated with intangible assets, including any future goodwill or intangible assets impairment charges;

•	the ability to realize the strategic benefits of joint venture opportunities;

•	accidents or other unscheduled shutdowns affecting our refineries, machinery, pipelines, processing, fractionation and treating facilities or equipment, or those of our suppliers or customers;

•	unusual weather conditions and natural disasters, which can unforeseeably affect the price or availability of crude oil and other feedstocks and refined products;

•	acts of war, terrorism or civil unrest that could impair our ability to produce refined products, receive feedstocks or to gather, process, fractionate or transport crude oil, natural gas, NGLs or refined products;

•	state and federal environmental, economic, health and safety, energy and other policies and regulations, including the cost of compliance with the renewable fuel standard program;

•	adverse changes in laws including with respect to tax and regulatory matters;

•	rulings, judgments or settlements and related expenses in litigation or other legal, tax or regulatory matters, including unexpected environmental remediation costs, in excess of any reserves or insurance coverage;

•	political pressure and influence of environmental groups upon policies and decisions related to the production, gathering, refining, processing, fractionation, transportation and marketing of crude oil or other feedstocks, refined products, natural gas, NGLs or other hydrocarbon-based products;

•	labor and material shortages;

•	the maintenance of satisfactory relationships with labor unions and joint venture partners;

•	the ability and willingness of parties with whom we have material relationships to perform their obligations to us;

•	the market price of our common stock and its impact on our share repurchase authorizations;

•	changes in the credit ratings assigned to our debt securities and trade credit, changes in the availability of unsecured credit, changes affecting the credit markets generally and our ability to manage such changes;

•	capital market conditions and our ability to raise adequate capital to execute our business plan;

•	the costs, disruption and diversion of management’s attention associated with campaigns commenced by activist investors; and

•	the other factors described in Item 1A. Risk Factors.

We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements except to the extent required by applicable law.

PART I