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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.
Marathon Petroleum Corporation is an American petroleum refining, marketing, and transportation company headquartered in Findlay, Ohio. The company was a wholly owned subsidiary of Marathon Oil until a corporate spin-off in 2011.
Marathon Ashland also purchased Total Petroleum of Alma, Michigan, in 1999. [13] The stations, which had been previously owned by Diamond Shamrock, were mostly in the state of Michigan. Most former Total locations were then rebranded to Marathon, Speedway, or Rich. [14] Speedway acquired the 50-unit Welsh Mart chain of Michigan and Indiana in ...
In 2011, Marathon completed the corporate spin-off of Marathon Petroleum, distributing a 100% interest to its shareholders. [18] In June 2013, Marathon sold its Angolan oil and gas field to Sinopec for $1.52 billion. [19] In September 2013, Marathon sold a 10% stake in an oil and gas field offshore Angola for $590 million to Sonangol Group. [20]
The Texas City Industrial Complex is a leading center of the petrochemical industry. 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 ...
BP (advertising tagline "Beyond Petroleum"; initials stood for British Petroleum, but with the merger of Amoco in 1998, BP is the actual corporate name) Amoco — United States, was used as a fuel grade until BP brought it back as a fuel brand in 2017; Aral — Germany, Luxembourg; Burmah — former gasoline brand used in the UK, Australia and ...
Marathon Chamber of Commerce; Marathon Museum Society; West Texas Weekly is a local weekly newspaper. Marathon in Handbook of Texas "2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Marathon CDP, TX" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. - The earliest census map posted online, from 1990: 1990 COUNTY BLOCK MAP (RECREATED): Brewster County Page B - 2000 Map and 2010 Map
Location of the Yates Oil Field in Texas, showing major and nearby cities. Black lines are county boundaries. The Yates Oil Field is a giant oil field in the Permian Basin of west Texas. Primarily in extreme southeastern Pecos County, it also stretches under the Pecos River and partially into Crockett County.