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Workers at Marathon Petroleum's Detroit refinery have voted to authorize a possible strike. The 273 members of Teamsters Local 283 who work at the refinery voted 95% in favor of strike ...
Marathon's Detroit refinery has a crude oil refining capacity of 140,000 barrels per day, processing sweet and heavy sour crude oils into products such as gasoline and distillates.
A massive fire erupted following a chemical leak at a Marathon Petroleum Corporation refinery in Louisiana. Marathon personnel and fire authorities responded to the scene of a naphtha spill and ...
Previously owned by Tidewater Petroleum, Tosco, Valero Energy, Tesoro and Marathon Petroleum. 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.
Marathon Petroleum traces its origin from a number of small oil companies in Ohio that banded together in 1887. [4] These formed The Ohio Oil Company established in Lima, Ohio. It became the largest oil producer in the state. [5] By 1889, the company was acquired by the Standard Oil Trust and six years later its headquarters was moved to ...
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.
Fire crews have contained a large fire at a refinery storage tank in Garyville, Louisiana, about 40 miles west of New Orleans, authorities said.
[4] In 1962, the Speedway 79 and Marathon stations were consolidated under the Marathon name and the Ohio Oil Company is renamed Marathon Oil Company. [5] [6] In 1981, Mobil made a hostile takeover offer to buy the company. [7] [8] However, the board of Marathon Oil rejected the offer and instead sold the company to United States Steel. A legal ...