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It became the National Petroleum Refiners Association in 1961, the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association in 1998 and became the AFPM in 2012. [1] [2] AFPM is a trade association representing American manufacturers of virtually the entire U.S. supply of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, other fuels and home heating oil, and petrochemicals. [3]
Petroleum refining in the United States in 2024 had a capacity of 18.4 million barrels per day. [2] Although the US was the world's largest net importer of refined petroleum products as recently as 2008, the US became a net exporter in 2010, and in 2014 was the largest exporter and the largest net exporter of refined petroleum. [ 3 ]
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Samuel Martin Kier (July 19, 1813 – October 6, 1874) was an American inventor and businessman who is credited with founding the American petroleum refining industry. He was the first person in the United States to refine crude oil into kerosene lamp oil. [1]
Shell USA, Inc. (formerly Shell Oil Company, Inc.) is the United States–based wholly owned subsidiary of Shell plc, a UK-based transnational corporation "oil major" which is among the largest oil companies in the world.
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The Strategic Petroleum Reserve : U.S. Energy Security and Oil Politics, 1975-2005 (Texas A&M University Press 2007) Black, Brian. Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom (Johns Hopkins UP, 2000) Clarke, Jeanne Nienaber. Roosevelt's Warrior: Harold L. Ickes and the New Deal (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996); on oil in 1930s.