The Cherry Point Refinery is an oil refinery near Bellingham, Washington, north of Seattle in the United States. Owned by BP, is the largest refinery in Washington state (and was the 30th largest in the U.S. in 2015). It is located about 7 mi south of Blaine and 8 mi northwest of Ferndale,[1] a few miles south of the Canada–US border, on the Strait of Georgia between Birch Bay and Lummi Bay.
Completed in 1971, its design and construction was overseen by George W. Glade, CEO and President of Parsons Constructors, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Ralph M. Parsons Company. It is the fourth largest refinery on the West Coast, and one of the last major oil refineries built in the United States.[2] The Cherry Point refinery supplies about 20% of the gasoline in Washington state.[3][4]