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The first known US petroleum refiner was Samuel Kier of Pittsburgh, who in the 1850s produced an illuminating oil for miners' lamps. 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 ...
The firm employs 122,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. [6] [5] [9] The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. [10] Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons.
This is a list of oil refineries. 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.
Marathon Petroleum Corporation is an American petroleum refining, marketing, and transportation company headquartered in Findlay, Ohio. The company was a wholly owned subsidiary of Marathon Oil until a corporate spin-off in 2011. Marathon Petroleum traces its origin from a number of small oil companies in Ohio that banded together in 1887. [4]
Phillips 66 owns 13 refineries with a net crude oil capacity of 2.2 million barrels per day (350 × 10 ^ 3 m 3 /d), 10,000 branded marketing outlets, and 15,000 miles (24,000 km) of pipelines. It has 50 percent stake in DCP Midstream, LLC, a natural gas gatherers and processors with 7.2 billion cubic feet per day (200 × 10 ^ 6 m 3 /d) of ...
Shell Oil Company (1997–2017) Saudi Aramco (1997–present) Website. motiva.com. Motiva Enterprises, LLC is an American company that operates as a wholly owned US subsidiary of Saudi Aramco. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, it had revenue of $37 Billion. [5] Motiva operates as a distributor of Shell and 76 branded gasolines within its ...
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. Within oil and gas, Chevron is vertically ...
US$28.52 billion (2023) [1] Number of employees. 9,908 (2023) [1] Website. www.valero.com. Valero Energy Corporation is an American-based fuels producer mostly involved in manufacturing and marketing transportation fuels and other related products. It is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, United States. [2]