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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.
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 refinery was built in 1906 by the National Refining Company, which was then the second largest oil company in the United States. Built on 75 acres (30 ha), the refinery processed 2,500 barrels per day (400 m 3 /d) of crude oil, compared to today's 108,000-barrel-per-day (17,200 m 3 /d) processing capacity. In 1944, National Refining Company ...
The Ferndale Refinery is an oil refinery near Ferndale, Washington, United States, that is owned by Phillips 66. It is located in the Cherry Point Industrial Zone west of Ferndale and had a capacity of 101,000 barrels per day in 2015, [1] 64th largest in the nation. The Ferndale Refinery produces predominantly transportation fuels consumed in ...
Little was known of Burt Refining's origins other than George A. Burts was the owner and was rumored to have been an agent of John D. Rockefeller. [5] In 1909, the State of Texas seized the refinery as an illegal affiliate of Standard Oil and sold in an auction to Magnolia Petroleum Co. [ 5 ] The refinery became Texas's third largest by 1920 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...