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The Galveston Bay Refinery is an oil refinery located in the Texas City, Texas Industrial Complex on the edge of Galveston Bay.It is the largest oil refinery in North America with a capacity of 631,000 barrels per day [1] and has been owned and operated by Marathon Petroleum Corporation since 2013.
Goose Creek Field, c. 1919. The Goose Creek Oil Field is a large oil field in Baytown, Texas, on Galveston Bay.Discovered in 1903, and reaching maximum production in 1918 after a series of spectacular gushers, it was one of the fields that contributed to the Texas Oil Boom of the early 20th century.
The 1947 Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the port of Texas City, Texas, United States, located in Galveston Bay.It was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history and one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions.
Ten U.S. oil refineries, including six in Texas, released the cancer-causing chemical benzene in concentrations that exceeded federal limits last year, according to government data published by ...
Additionally, the February acquisition of the 451,000 barrel-per-day Galveston Bay refinery in Texas -- right off the entrance to the Houston Ship Channel -- came in at just the right time.
Within this complex, the Galveston Bay Refinery operated by Marathon is the second-largest petroleum refinery in Texas and third-largest in the United States. [19] [20] The Port of Texas City became the third-leading port in Texas by tonnage and ninth in the nation.
A former refinery worker was installed on Tuesday as the director of the United Steelworkers union (USW) district that includes Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma. Larry Burchfield, 52, of ...
ExxonMobil's oil refinery in Baton Rouge is the sixth-largest in the United States [1] Anacortes Refinery ... Galveston Bay Refinery: 631,000 Marathon Petroleum: Texas: 2