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The name was adopted in 1911 when Chevron built its second refinery, El Segundo, which is Spanish for "the Second". [23] This refinery has received crude oil from the Amazon region of South America - more than 5,000 barrels per day. [24] El Segundo is located next to the Hyperion sewage treatment plant [25] and the El Segundo power plant.
Chevron continues to take oil from the Amazon region at large. El Segundo (CA), Pascagoula (MS), and Richmond (CA) refineries all process Amazonian oil. In 2015 El Segundo was the single largest refiner in the U.S. of Amazon Crude, processing 54,463 barrels per day. [28]
The Chevron El Segundo oil refinery is shown in 2021. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times) The Clean Water Act, enacted in 1948 under a different name and restructured in 1972, regulates water ...
Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation predominantly specializing in oil and gas.The second-largest direct descendant of Standard Oil, and originally known as the Standard Oil Company of California (shortened to Socal or CalSo), it is active in more than 180 countries.
Years after the death of its newspaper, Richmond's primary source of local news is a website funded by Chevron, the oil giant whose refinery looms over the city's horizon. This California city ...
More than 500 workers at a Chevron Corp. refinery in the San Francisco Bay area went on strike early Monday in a contract dispute. The United Steelworkers union said in an email that the strike ...
A few blocks from my house is the El Segundo Chevron oil refinery. Three police cars came while I was taking this photograph. They were very nice, and given that I was outside the premises, there is nothing illegal about it. Camera manufacturer: Canon: Camera model: Canon EOS 30D: Author: unknown: Exposure time: 5/2 sec (2.5) F-number: f/7.1 ...
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