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The Chevron El Segundo oil refinery is shown in 2021. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times) The Clean Water Act, enacted in 1948 under a different name and restructured in 1972, regulates water ...
A few blocks from my house is the El Segundo Chevron oil refinery. Three police cars came while I was taking this photograph. They were very nice, and given that I was outside the premises, there is nothing illegal about it. Camera manufacturer: Canon: Camera model: Canon EOS 30D: Author: unknown: Exposure time: 5/2 sec (2.5) F-number: f/7.1 ...
Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation predominantly specializing in oil and gas.The second-largest direct descendant of Standard Oil, and originally known as the Standard Oil Company of California (shortened to Socal or CalSo), it is active in more than 180 countries.
Chevron continues to take oil from the Amazon region at large. El Segundo (CA), Pascagoula (MS), and Richmond (CA) refineries all process Amazonian oil. In 2015 El Segundo was the single largest refiner in the U.S. of Amazon Crude, processing 54,463 barrels per day. [28]
The incident was reported around 6:15 p.m. at the oil refinery in the 300 block of El Segundo Boulevard.
Petroleum refining in the United States in 2024 had a capacity of 18.4 million barrels per day. [2] Although the US was the world's largest net importer of refined petroleum products as recently as 2008, the US became a net exporter in 2010, and in 2014 was the largest exporter and the largest net exporter of refined petroleum. [3]
The name was adopted in 1911 when Chevron built its second refinery, El Segundo, which is Spanish for "the Second". [42] This refinery has received crude oil from the Amazon region of South America - more than 5,000 barrels per day. [43] El Segundo is located next to the Hyperion sewage treatment plant [44] and the El Segundo power plant.
The Hawthorne–El Segundo Line was an interurban railway route of the Pacific Electric Railway. It was built to transport oil from the Standard Oil Refinery in El Segundo and also saw passenger service. Unlike most corridors which hosted Pacific Electric passengers, the line remains largely intact as the Union Pacific El Segundo Industrial Lead.