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Owned by BP, is the largest refinery in Washington state (and was the 30th largest in the U.S. in 2015). It is located about seven miles (11 km) south of Blaine and eight miles (13 km) northwest of Ferndale , [ 1 ] a few miles south of the Canada–US border , on the Strait of Georgia between Birch Bay and Lummi Bay.
On November 30, 1927, the Eastern Gulf Oil Co. subsidiary of Gulf Oil bought an option on the concession, to be exercised before January 1, 1929. In 1928 Gulf Oil became a shareholder in the Near East Development Corporation which was awarded a 23.75% stake in the Iraq Petroleum Company .
This is a list of natural lakes and reservoirs located fully or partially in the U.S. state of Washington. Natural lakes that have been altered with a dam, such as Lake Chelan, are included as lakes, not reservoirs. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all.
Merrill Lake (Washington) Midway High Lakes Area; Monogram Lake; Moraine Lake (Skagit County, Washington) Lake Morton (Washington) Moses Lake; Mosquito Lake (Whatcom County, Washington) Mount Rainier; Mowich Lake; Mud Lake (Washington) Lake Murphy (Washington) Murphy Lakes (Washington)
Washington state has the fifth highest oil refining capacity of any state. As of 2018, there are 5 refineries in Washington state with a joint capacity of 637,700 b/d. [1] They are, in order of greatest b/d capacity, Cherry Point refinery, Puget Sound refinery, Marathon Anacortes refinery, Ferndale refinery and U.S. Oil refinery.
General Petroleum was a subsidiary of Socony (Standard Oil Company of New York) and was integrated into Mobil Chemical Co when the company formed in 1960. BP took control of the refinery in 1988 when its wholly owned subsidiary Sohio received the plant from Mobil Oil in exchange for $152.5 million and crude oil inventories. [2] [3]
Lake Washington Ship Canal: Lake Washington [n 3] Gravity 0 26 7.9 458,000 565,000 1916 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Navigation Howard A. Hanson Dam: King: Green River: Howard A. Hanson Reservoir: Earthfill 235 72 136,700 168,600 1961 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Flood control, Water supply John Day Dam† Klickitat: Columbia River: Lake ...
Firefighting training contaminated soil with dioxins and petroleum hydrocarbons. Hydraulic erosion of a landfill area contaminated sediments and shellfish in Clam Bay with PCBs, copper, lead and zinc. Seeps from the landfill contained elevated levels of copper, nickel, zinc and PCBs. [61] [62] January 18, 1994: May 31, 1994