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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).
The Illinois Basin has produced more than four billion barrels of petroleum. [6] Major oil production began in 1905, and from 1907 through 1912, the basin was the third-most oil productive area in the United States. Oil production peaked in 1908 at 34 million barrels per year, and declined steadily to 5 million barrels in 1933.
Roxana is a village in Madison County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,454 at the 2020 census. [3] The ZIP Code is 62084. A majority of the land in Roxana is taken up by the Wood River Refinery, an oil refinery operated by Phillips 66. The refinery was originally built and owned by Shell Oil.
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.
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 ...
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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]