Producer
Oxbow Carbon (Koch Industries)
Major calcined petroleum coke producer and trader (~18% global market share); part of Koch Industries (William Koch's company, not Charles/David Koch's Koch Industries); operates calcining facilities in Texas and globally; major US petcoke exporter and supplier to international aluminum smelters
1
Inputs supplied
1
Goods downstream
2
Facilities
0
Stories
What they make
1 input Oxbow Carbon (Koch Industries) supplies
Click an input to see every good that depends on it, every country that produces it, and every other company in the supply chain.
Where it shows up
Goods downstream
Essential goods that depend on something Oxbow Carbon (Koch Industries) makes, pick one to see the full supply chain.
Where they make it
2 facilities
Oxbow Carbon – Port Arthur Calciner (Texas) →
USTexas
Oxbow calcining facility near Port Arthur, TX; receives green petcoke from nearby Motiva (Saudi Aramco/Shell) and Valero refineries; produces anode-grade CPC; exports via Gulf of Mexico ports to aluminum smelters in Middle East, Europe, Asia
Oxbow Port Arthur Terminal →
USPort Arthur, Texas · bulk terminal
One of four Oxbow bulk shipping terminals (Gulf Coast, Caribbean, South America); aggregates ~11M t/yr petcoke from Gulf Coast refineries; enables blending and quality management for cement kiln customers.
What else they do
Business segments
The company's full revenue map, where this supply-chain role fits within their broader business.
Calcined Petroleum Coke (CPC)
55%Green Petcoke Trading & Brokerage
35%Power Generation
10%
Intelligence
What's known
Sourced claims about this company's role in supply chains, chokepoints, concentration, incidents, dual-use connections.
Did you know2024
[single-source] Oxbow Carbon is part of Oxbow Corporation, owned by William Koch (younger brother of Charles Koch). The same Oxbow that supplies anode-grade CPC to global aluminum smelters also mines coal, trades energy, and operates liquid bulk terminals. Koch Industries' adjacent companies (Flint Hills Resources refineries, Invista petrochemicals) produce GPC feedstock — creating a vertically integrated petcoke supply chain that runs from crude oil through calcined carbon anode without leaving the Koch enterprise.
Oxbow Corporation ↗Origin2023
Oxbow Carbon is owned by William I. Koch -- a fact frequently confused with Koch Industries (owned by brothers Charles and David Koch, William's estranged siblings). The three Koch brothers had a bitter legal dispute over the family oil company that lasted decades and produced the largest securities fraud settlement in US history at the time ($25M, 1992). William used his settlement proceeds partly to fund Oxbow Carbon's expansion and his America's Cup campaign (winning in 1992 with yacht America3). Oxbow grew into a major petcoke calciner and trader by recognizing that petroleum coke, a low-value refinery byproduct that most refiners wanted to dispose of, could be upgraded to high-value CPC with a proprietary calcining process. William Koch's personal feuds with his brothers have been extensively litigated in courts from Delaware to Texas, creating an unusual public record of how petroleum byproduct arbitrage funded both a carbon materials empire and one of the more dramatic family business disputes in US industrial history.
Oxbow Carbon LLC ↗