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The Shell Martinez Refinery in Martinez, California, the first Shell refinery in the United States, supplied Shell and Texaco stations in the West and Midwest [12] until its sale to PBF Energy in 2020. [13] Shell fuel previously included the RU2000 and SU2000 lines (later there was a SU2000E) but they have been superseded by the V-Power line. [14]
The Emeryville Research Center of Shell Development Company in Emeryville, California was a major research facility of Shell Oil Company in the United States from 1928 until 1972, when Shell Development relocated to Houston, Texas. [1]
Shell plc is a British ... as Shell built early service stations in California, ... transportation, refining and finally trading and marketing established the core ...
The Shell Martinez Refinery, in Martinez, California, has operated continuously since its construction in 1915. Huntington Beach Oil Field, 1926. At the turn of the century, oil production in California continued to rise at a booming rate. In 1900, the state of California produced 4 million barrels. [1]
Valero was established on January 1, ... Shell plc: $273 billion ... Proposition 23 aimed to delay the implementation of California's Global Warming Solutions Act of ...
Shell Oil Company's Taylor 653 reached a depth of 21,500 feet (6,600 m), penetrating into the Miocene age Monterey Formation, but found no oil at those depths. Deeper reservoir oil was extremely hot; the temperature of oil in the 4th zone, discovered in 1925, and determined later to have an average depth of 9,150 feet (2,790 m), was ...
Enterprise In Oil: A History Of Shell In The United States (1957) pp 59–112, 269-96; considerable detail on service stations; Blackford, Mansel G. The politics of business in California, 1890-1920 (Ohio State University Press, 1977) California Department of Conservation Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources.
In December 2019, there was a flurry of reports from reliable sources including the Associated Press and the San Francisco Chronicle that the 161 year-old Martinez News-Gazette, one of the longest-running newspapers in California, may have to cease publication. But as of late May 2020, the threatened cessation did not materialize and the ...