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Oil company Phillips 66 announced Wednesday that it plans to shut down a Los Angeles-area refinery by the end of 2025, citing market concerns. The company said it will remain operating in the state.
Complaints of acrid odors, fiery accidents, soot and harmful emissions have gained new resonance in recent years.
The South Bay is in for a large-scale transformation near the Port of Los Angeles as Phillips 66 shuts down its sprawling refineries and makes way for developers to reimagine the prime real estate.
A declining percentage of the oil supplied to California's refineries is produced in California, down to 23.4% in 2023 from 51.0% in 1993, thirty years earlier. [17] 15.9% of oil supplied to California's refineries came from Alaska in 2023, and 60.7% came from foreign sources. [17]
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]
Edward L. Doheny, California oil entrepreneur in Mexico Petroleum was known in Mexico before the arrival of the Spaniards and used by the natives for incense and to repair canoes. [ 10 ] In Mexico's colonial era (1521-1821), ranchers lost cattle to tar pits in the Gulf Coast Region, [ 11 ] so it was considered more of a hazard than a valuable ...
For more than 100 years, the Wilmington and Carson oil refineries have pumped out millions of barrels of gasoline, filling the thirsty cars of Southern California's freeway-driving motorists.
The first strictly offshore oil field in California was the Belmont Offshore Field, discovered in 1948 1.6 miles (2.6 km) from the shore of Seal Beach; production did not begin until 1954 when a man-made island was built in 40 feet of water for drilling and production equipment. [9]