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A few blocks from my house is the El Segundo Chevron oil refinery. Three police cars came while I was taking this photograph. They were very nice, and given that I was outside the premises, there is nothing illegal about it. Camera manufacturer: Canon: Camera model: Canon EOS 30D: Author: unknown: Exposure time: 5/2 sec (2.5) F-number: f/7.1 ...
The Chevron El Segundo oil refinery is shown in 2021. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times) The Clean Water Act, enacted in 1948 under a different name and restructured in 1972, regulates water ...
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.
In April 2005, the United States oil company Chevron made an offer to acquire Unocal for US$16.6 billion, which was followed, after the companies had agreed to the transaction, by a competing unsolicited bid from the Chinese firm CNOOC Limited of US$18.5 billion on June 22. [11]
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Union Oil, for many years based in El Segundo, California, introduced "76" gasoline in 1932. The name referred to the 1776 United States Declaration of Independence, and was also the octane rating of the gasoline in 1932. [13] 76 signs are orange balls with a 76 legend in blue. During the 1960s and '70s, most stations had the 76 ball rotate ...
January 12, 2009 - 2 refinery operators and 2 contractors suffered serious burns resulting from a flash fire at the Silver Eagle Refinery in Woods Cross. The accident occurred when a large flammable vapor cloud was released from an atmospheric storage tank, known as tank 105, which contained an estimated 440,000 gallons of light naphtha.