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The Whiting Refinery is an oil refinery located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan and the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal [1] and operated by BP.The facility is primarily located in Whiting, Indiana, USA, though portions of the 1,400 acres (5.7 km 2) complex span into the neighboring cities of Hammond and East Chicago.
The Oil & Gas Journal publishes a worldwide list of refineries annually in a country-by-country tabulation that includes for each refinery: location, crude oil daily processing capacity, and the size of each process unit in the refinery. For some countries, the refinery list is further categorized state-by-state.
American petroleum refining largely grew out of oil shale refining. When the Drake Well started producing in 1859, the oil shale industry was growing rapidly, and establishing refineries near cannel coal deposits along the Ohio River Valley. As oil production increased, the oil shale refiners discovered that their refining process worked just ...
Did BP Whiting's oil refinery in Indiana suffer a power outage Feb. 1, 2024? Yes. The BP oil refinery in Whiting, Ind., suffered a power outage on Feb. 1, according to the City of Whiting.
The closure of an Indiana oil refinery could be one factor. Shutdown of Indiana oil refinery impacts gas prices with a 21 cent increase from last month Skip to main content
Power has been restored to BP’s sprawling oil refinery in northwest Indiana following an outage that prompted the company to temporarily shut down the complex and evacuate workers, BP said Friday.
The company processes crude oil and other feedstocks into a wide variety of customized lubricating oils, solvents, waxes, synthetic lubricants, and other products. Calumet's specialty products are sold to domestic and international customers who purchase them primarily as raw material components for various industrial and consumer applications.
Wood River Refinery was originally built by Shell in 1917. In the late 1990s, Shell and Texaco merged their downstream segments to form the Motiva (with Saudi national oil company Saudi Aramco) and Equilon joint ventures. During a prolonged period of low refining profit margins, Equilon sold the refinery to Tosco in 2003. Shortly thereafter ...