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The Oil & Gas Journal publishes a worldwide list of refineries annually in a country-by-country tabulation that includes for each refinery: location, crude oil daily processing capacity, and the size of each process unit in the refinery. For some countries, the refinery list is further categorized state-by-state.
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American petroleum refining largely grew out of oil shale refining. When the Drake Well started producing in 1859, the oil shale industry was growing rapidly, and establishing refineries near cannel coal deposits along the Ohio River Valley. As oil production increased, the oil shale refiners discovered that their refining process worked just ...
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]
As if anyone needed more evidence of the difficult path to profits in the oil refining business, Hess Corp. (NYSE: HES) said this morning that it will shut down its Port Reading, N.J., refinery ...
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]
Nov. 24—A senior executive is stepping down from the Long Beach-based company trying to convert a former oil refinery on Rosedale Highway into a renewable diesel plant. Global Clean Energy ...
Governor Gavin Newsom said Thursday he will compel California oil refineries to stockpile additional fuel reserves in an effort to ward off price spikes, marking the latest move in his multi-year ...