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A Paragon Oil truck servicing a Brooklyn apartment building in the 1930s. Paragon Oil was an American oil company, founded in 1925 in New York City by the Schwartz family, and sold to Texaco in the late 1950s. It is not related to the Paragon Oil Company operating today in Brooklyn.
Five wells were drilled in Florida state waters in the Straits of Florida (in waters off the Florida Keys) from 1946 to 1962. Gulf Oil operated three wells in state waters south of the Florida Keys in 1959, 1960 and 1961, while Chevron (Calco) and Sinclair each operated one. The wells were considered to be dry holes, however, oil shows were ...
Just offshore of the Florida Keys along the edge of the Florida Straits is the Florida Reef (also known as the Florida Reef Tract), separated from the keys by the Hawk Channel. The Florida Reef extends 170 miles (270 km) from Fowey Rocks just east of Soldier Key to just south of the Marquesas Keys.
HOUSTON (Reuters) -At least one oil and gas platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico was shut on Monday and Florida ports imposed restrictions on vessel navigation as Hurricane Milton rapidly intensified.
Bayway Refinery is a refining facility in the Port of New York and New Jersey, owned by Phillips 66.Located in Linden and Elizabeth, New Jersey, and bisected by Morses Creek, it is the northernmost refinery on the East Coast of the United States.
Location: Bridges on U.S. 1 between Long and Conch Key, Knight and Little Duck Key, and Bahia Honda and Spanish Key, Florida Keys, Florida: Coordinates: Area: 30.2 acres (12.2 ha) Built: 1905–1912: Architect: Florida East Coast Railway; Overseas Highway & Toll Bridge Comm.
Overseas Highway and Railway bridges, Florida Keys The Overseas Highway begins at a T intersection between US 1 and SR A1A, from which it heads east. [4] After crossing to Stock Island and forming the boundary between the eponymous district and incorporated Key West, US 1 proceeds through unincorporated Monroe County on Boca Chica Key, [5] past Naval Air Station Key West, and Rockland Key ...
The Greenpoint oil spill is one of the largest oil spills ever recorded in the United States.Located around Newtown Creek in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, between 17 and 30 million US gallons (64,000 and 114,000 m 3) of oil and petroleum products have leaked into the soil from crude oil processing facilities over a period of several decades. [1]