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At one point, known as BJ Services Company, the company operated in more than 50 countries worldwide. BJ Services generated record revenue of $5.4 billion in fiscal 2008, up 13% from the prior year, and had 18,000 employees. [1] On April 28, 2010, the company was bought by Baker Hughes in a $5.5 billion stock and cash deal.
CRC-Evans has provided equipment & services for almost 50,000 miles (nearly 80,000 km) of pipelines in more than 100 countries. Company offices and facilities are also located in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom (England and Scotland), Australia, Netherlands, France, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Malaysia and Brazil.
The San Francisco Refinery is an oil refinery complex located in Rodeo, California and in Arroyo Grande, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area and Santa Maria Valley. These two locations, although more than 200 miles (320 km) apart, are considered one operation. They are directly connected by a 200-mile pipeline (320 km). [1]
All but three of them are owned by either Pacific Gas and Electric or Southern California Gas Company. The latest interstate pipeline additions are the 42 inch diameter Ruby Pipeline, which began operation in California near the Oregon border in July 2011, [33] and the Kern River Expansion, which came on-line in October 2011.
California will use the funding to plug and remediate 206 high-risk orphaned oil and gas wells and decommission 47 attendant production facilities with about 70,000 feet of associated pipelines.
The most recent was the 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion that killed at least four people, injured 60 and more victims are still missing. [19] Portions of the San Bruno pipeline had been built in 1956. In ideal situations, pipeline inspection gauges or a “PIG” (see Pigging) is used to inspect and ensure the safe operation of natural gas ...
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Southern California had become the hotbed for oil production in the United States. In a 1926 Times magazine article, it was said, "[The Standard Oil Company of California] is the largest individual producer of crude oil in the U.S. and dominates the marketing of petroleum products along the west coast of both Americas."