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The C & H Refinery Historic District comprises an intact industrial complex in Lusk, Wyoming that documents an early 20th-century refinery.The C & H Refinery is noted as the smallest functioning oil refinery in the world, and may be the only remaining thermal distillation refinery, all other refineries having modernized to the catalytic cracking method.
Tulsa continued to be known and promote itself as the "oil capital of the world" into the 1950s [24] and 1960s. The IPE grew and reached its peak attendance in 1966, when the Golden Driller , a large statue symbolic of Tulsa's historical importance in the oil industry , was erected in front of the new IPE Building , then said to be the world's ...
Early world maps cover depictions of the world from the Iron Age to the Age of Discovery and the emergence of modern geography during the early modern period.Old maps provide information about places that were known in past times, as well as the philosophical and cultural basis of the map, which were often much different from modern cartography.
Risdon Zinc Works (trading as Nyrstar Hobart) is a major zinc refinery located in Lutana, a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.The smelter is one of the world's largest in terms of production volume, [5] producing over 280,000 tonnes (280,000 long tons; 310,000 short tons) [6] annually of high-grade zinc, primarily as die-cast alloys and continuous galvanising-grade alloys.
The Dangote Refinery is an oil refinery owned by Dangote Group that was inaugurated on 22 May 2023 [1] in Lekki, Nigeria. When fully operational, it is expected to have the capacity to process about 650,000 barrels of crude oil per day, making it the largest single-train refinery in the world. The investment is over US$19 billion. [2]
Hovensa LLC, which took over the refinery operatorship, was established in 1998. [6] In January 2011, Hovensa paid a $5.3 million penalty for Clean Air Act violations. [7] The company closed the refinery in 2012, operating the property continued as a storage terminal only [8] until that closed in 2015.
The Great Lakes megalopolis shown in orange, part of the Rust Belt Sectors of the U.S. economy as a percentage of GDP between 1947 and 2009 [20] Since the term "Rust Belt" is used to refer to a set of economic and social conditions rather than to an overall geographical region of the U.S., the Rust Belt has no precise boundaries.
Pikalevo Alumina Refinery, Leningrad region 268 100% United Company of Rusal [14] (United Nations 2000) Russia Volkhov Alumina 400 100% North-West Aluminium [5] (United Nations 2000) Saudi Arabia Ma'aden 1,800 25.1% Alcoa World Alumina & Chemicals [3] Spain San Ciprian 43º41'56"N 7º27'50W 1,530 100% Alcoa World Alumina & Chemicals [3 ...