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California policymakers are considering state ownership of one or more oil refineries, one item on a list of options presented by the California Energy Commission to ensure steady gas supplies as ...
California's attempt to manage a smooth transition away from gasoline just got roughed up with this week's decision by Phillips 66 to shutter its refinery in Wilmington next year, wiping out more ...
The closure will leave the state with eight major refineries — three in Bay Area and five in the Los Angeles area, operated by Chevron, Valero and other refiners — as well as several smaller ones.
On June 17, 2011, the DOJ, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and California Regional Water Quality Control Board filed suit against Greka in Federal court in Los Angeles for having failed to comply with the requirements of the Clean Water Act, citing 21 oil and contaminated water spills between 2005 and 2010. The amount sought was in ...
The refinery is located on 850 acres, in 2016 had approximately 650 full-time employees, and had a crude oil capacity of 157,000 barrels per day. In 2015 it was the fourth-largest refinery in the state. The refinery had a Nelson complexity index of 16.1. [citation needed]
A declining percentage of the oil supplied to California's refineries is produced in California, down to 23.4% in 2023 from 51.0% in 1993, thirty years earlier. [17] 15.9% of oil supplied to California's refineries came from Alaska in 2023, and 60.7% came from foreign sources. [17]
Complaints of acrid odors, fiery accidents, soot and harmful emissions have gained new resonance in recent years.
Headquartered in Bakersfield, California, Aera Energy LLC is a California limited liability company, [1] and one of California's largest oil and natural gas producers, with an approximate 2015 revenues of over $2 billion. Aera is operated as a stand-alone company through its board of managers.