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Marathon Petroleum purchased its original 84,000 bpd Texas City Refinery from Plymouth Oil Company in 1962. What remains operating today is an integrated part of the Galveston Bay Refinery, nicknamed Bay Plant. It was established in 1931 by Republic Oil Refining Company and sold to Plymouth Oil Company in 1957. [2] In 2005, the refinery could ...
Due to the great surge in American production of oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids since 2008, those products have been cheaper in the North American market than worldwide, giving American refiners a major cost advantage. [17] The discount on US crude is partially attributed to the long-standing federal ban on exports of American crude oil.
The Delaware City Refinery, currently owned by Delaware City Refining Corporation, a subsidiary of PBF Energy, is an oil refinery in Delaware City, Delaware.When operational it has a total throughput capacity of 210,000 barrels per day (33,000 m 3 /d), [1] [2] and employs around 570 individuals.
Although some oil was produced commercially before 1859 as a byproduct from salt brine wells, the American oil industry started on a major scale with the discovery of oil at the Drake Well in western Pennsylvania in 1859. US crude oil production initially peaked in 1970 at 9.64 million barrels (1,533,000 m 3) per day.
The company's oil and gas operations are concentrated in two geographic areas: the United States and the Middle East, with some ventures in South America. As of December 31, 2020, Occidental had 2.911 billion barrels of oil equivalent (1.781 × 10 10 GJ) of oil equivalent net proved reserves, of which 51% was petroleum, 19% was natural gas ...
Motiva Enterprises owns and operates the Port Arthur Refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. On 25 May 2012, Motiva officially completed its expansion of the refinery to a capacity of 600,000 bbl/d (95,000 m 3 /d) making it the largest refinery in North America and the fifth largest in the world.
HOUSTON - U.S. oil producer Chevron used the term "Gulf of America" instead of Gulf of Mexico in its fourth-quarter press release on Friday, a sign of corporate America beginning to implement U.S ...
TC Energy was known as TransCanada before rebranding in 2019. The company was incorporated in 1951 by a Special Act of Parliament as Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Limited. [10] In 1954 N. Eldon Tanner, president of Merrill Petroleums and former Alberta legislator, became president of the company. [11]