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Pemex Deer Park is an oil refinery located in Deer Park, Texas on the Houston Ship Channel in the Greater Houston area. It is owned and operated by Pemex . As of December 2017, the plant is the fourth-largest taxpayer [ 1 ] and the tenth largest employer [ 2 ] in Harris County .
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 ...
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.
PBF's refineries in Paulsboro (NJ) and Delaware City (DE) have been cited by environmentalists for processing crude oil from the Amazon River Basin in South America. In 2015, the Delaware City and Paulsboro refineries were processing more than 3,300 and 2,666 barrels per day of crude originating in the Amazon, respectively. [ 13 ]
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The refinery was expanded from 60,000 barrels per day (9,500 m 3 /d) to 65,000 barrels per day (10,300 m 3 /d) in 1982. It was expanded again to have a processing capacity of 70,000 barrels per day (11,000 m 3 /d) in 2007. The employees of the Warren refinery are represented by the International Union of Operating Engineers.
The Magnolia Refinery played a key role during World War II as it stepped up production and shipped oil globally. [7] By 1959, the operations of the Magnolia Oil Company had been merged entirely into SOCONY Mobil. [6] The refinery further in the ensuing decades to becomes Beaumont's largest employer and eventually Mobil's largest refinery by ...