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Tesoro's Anacortes Refinery at March Point in Puget Sound, southeast of Anacortes, Washington State. Having taken over BP installations, researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute identified Tesoro as being the 24th-largest corporate producer of air pollution in the United States, releasing roughly 3,740,000 lb (1,700 t) of toxic chemicals annually. [22]
Phillips 66 Wilmington area's oil refinery complex is set to close in 2025, but the fate of its longtime jack-o'-lantern tank is unknown.
Phillips 66 announced Wednesday that it will close its Wilmington-area refinery complex next year but will work with the state to continue supplying fuel to consumers.
State Sen. Steve Bradford (D-Gardena), who represents the Wilmington-area district where the refinery is located, sees the planned closure as the culmination of "a death of 1,000 cuts" from ...
July 12, 1951 - A tank farm fire in Wilmington injured 3. [11] September 1, 1968 - Lightning struck an oil storage surface reservoir, at the Standard Oil Company of California refinery in El Segundo, igniting the wooden roof, and started a fire on the 7.25-acre surface of bunker oil that burned for 13 days.
The following year, the company expanded its operations by purchasing the Paulsboro Refinery in New Jersey from Mobil, making it the second-largest independent refiner in the U.S. [10] In 2000, Valero purchased the Benicia, California, refinery and interest in 350 Exxon-branded service stations in California, mainly in the San Francisco Bay ...
The Phillip 66 refinery in Wilmington was built in 1919 and produces produces gasoline, diesel and aviation fuels, which are distributed by pipeline and by truck to customers in California, Nevada ...
The Phillips 66 refinery complex in Wilmington and Carson now produces 1.3 billion gallons of gasoline annually, which will leave a huge gap to be filled after its planned closure late next year.