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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.
The Martinez Refinery, owned by PBF Energy, located in Martinez, CA. PBF Energy Inc. is a petroleum refining and logistics company that produces and sells transportation fuels, heating oils, lubricants, petrochemical feedstocks, and other petroleum products.
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 Magnolia Refinery played a key role during World War II as it stepped up production and shipped oil globally. [7] By 1959, the operations of the Magnolia Oil Company had been merged entirely into SOCONY Mobil. [6] The refinery further in the ensuing decades to becomes Beaumont's largest employer and eventually Mobil's largest refinery by ...
Standard Oil refinery in Cleveland, 1899. Ohio was a world leader in oil production in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Ohio oil and natural gas industries employ 14,400 citizens, resulting in $730 million in wages. The industries paid $202 million in royalties to landowners, and $84 million in free energy. [7]
An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refined into products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, asphalt base, fuel oils, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas and petroleum naphtha.
Ashland was founded in 1924 as the Ashland Refining Company in Catlettsburg, Kentucky, by Paul G. Blazer. [3]In October 1923, J. Fred Miles of the Swiss Oil Company of Lexington, Kentucky [4] employed Paul G. Blazer and assigned him the task of locating, purchasing and operating a refinery in northeastern Kentucky.
The refinery now occupies a 650-acre (260 ha) plus site, producing more than 291,000 barrels per day (46,300 m 3 /d), and employing around 1,600 employees and contractors. Its location on the west banks of the Big Sandy River and only two miles south of the Ohio River , allows it to ship products by barge as well as pipeline. [ 1 ]