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Pemex Deer Park is an oil refinery located in Deer Park, Texas on the Houston Ship Channel in the Greater Houston area. It is owned and operated by Pemex . As of December 2017, the plant is the fourth-largest taxpayer [ 1 ] and the tenth largest employer [ 2 ] in Harris County .
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.
On July 27, 2021, the Whatcom County Council voted unanimously to ban new refineries, shipping terminals, or coal-fired power plants at Cherry Point. [18] In December 2023, BP finalized its purchase of 1,100 acres (450 ha) near Cherry Point from a subsidiary of SSA Marine for $50 million to be used as a buffer for their refinery.
American petroleum refining largely grew out of oil shale refining. When the Drake Well started producing in 1859, the oil shale industry was growing rapidly, and establishing refineries near cannel coal deposits along the Ohio River Valley. As oil production increased, the oil shale refiners discovered that their refining process worked just ...
The Rubbertown industrial complex was created with construction by Standard Oil of Kentucky, who built an oil refinery in the area in 1918. Two other companies would come to the area for similar business in the 1930s, Aetna Oil and Louisville Refinery. These refineries were producers of fuel, gasoline, kerosene, naphtha, oil, and petroleum coke ...
The Ferndale Refinery is an oil refinery near Ferndale, Washington, United States, that is owned by Phillips 66. It is located in the Cherry Point Industrial Zone west of Ferndale and had a capacity of 101,000 barrels per day in 2015, [1] 64th largest in the nation. The Ferndale Refinery produces predominantly transportation fuels consumed in ...
The refinery was expanded from 60,000 barrels per day (9,500 m 3 /d) to 65,000 barrels per day (10,300 m 3 /d) in 1982. It was expanded again to have a processing capacity of 70,000 barrels per day (11,000 m 3 /d) in 2007. The employees of the Warren refinery are represented by the International Union of Operating Engineers.
The company is headquartered in El Paso, Texas; [11] its refineries are located in El Paso, Gallup, New Mexico, and St. Paul Park, Minnesota. These refineries have a combined crude oil processing capacity of approximately 242,500 barrels per day (38,550 m 3 /d). [12]