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The Wood River Refinery is an oil refinery located in Roxana, Illinois, approximately 15 miles (24 km) north of St. Louis, Missouri, on the east side of the Mississippi River. The refinery is currently owned by Phillips 66 and Cenovus Energy and operated by the joint-venture company WRB Refining, LLC (WRB).
An API well number or API number is a "unique, permanent, numeric identifier" assigned to each well drilled for oil and gas in the United States. [1] The API number is one of many industry standards established by the American Petroleum Institute. Custody of the API Number standard was transferred in 2010 to the PPDM Association.
States require a drilling permit before a well begins drilling. Requirements to receive drilling permits generally include minimum setbacks from lease or unit boundaries, and adequate casing and cementing programs. States generally require permits for or notices of major work done on a well, and periodic reports of oil and gas produced.
The industry’s fears were apparently unfounded. The high number of drilling permits issued under Biden concerns government watchdogs who complain that fossil fuel extraction on public land ...
Lemont Refinery is an oil refinery in Romeoville, Illinois owned and operated by Citgo Petroleum Corporation.Originally constructed in the early 1920s, it was reconstructed between 1968 and 1970 by its then owner Union Oil [1] and has a current crude processing capacity of 177,000 barrels per day. [2]
Representatives of the industry are quick to point out that new drilling permits have declined sharply in recent years, from thousands of permits per year in 2018 to about 500 permits in 2022 ...
The Pure Oil Station in Geneva, Illinois was built in 1937 on Illinois Route 38 (West State Street) at its intersection with Fifth Street. The Pure Oil Company popularized the idea of filling station buildings. Prior to the 1920s, filling stations were regarded as unappealing fire hazards and were kept away from residential areas.
Patoka is the main oil terminal in the region where oil was first discovered in 1938. [5] Tax revenue from operations are collected and distributed by Marion County, Illinois . It was reported by the Chicago Tribune that Dakota Access paid approximately $750,000 in tax revenue for its operations in Illinois.