Petrochemical Plant / Oil Refinery
Two adjacent refineries are located on March Point, in Anacortes - one operated by the Tesoro Petroleum Corporation, and a larger one operated by Shell. Crude, processed at the plants, comes primarily from Alaska's North Slope, arriving by tankers making the trip from the Alaska pipeline terminus...
The Golden Eagle Refinery in Martinez, also known as the Avon Refinery, is one of five refineries located around the San Francisco Bay and Delta region. Valued around $1 billion, the refinery has a processing capacity of 166,000 barrels of crude per day, making mostly automotive fuels. It was built...
The Benicia Refinery was built by Exxon from 1966-1969, and has the distinction of receiving the first shipload of crude to be delivered from the Alaskan Pipeline, in 1977. Most of the crude processed here still comes from the pipeline via Valdez, though the refinery is also connected to a crude...
Cherry Point is the fourth largest refinery on the West Coast. 202,000 barrels of crude are processed each day at this plant to produce gasoline for northwest markets. Owned by British Petroleum (BP) the plant makes gasoline for the ARCO brand, a company that has nearly 1,000 am/pm minimart gas...
The Richmond Refinery is the largest and oldest major oil refinery on the West Coast. Construction started in 1901, and it was soon bought by Standard Oil. It covers 2,900 acres, has 5,000 miles of pipelines, and hundreds of large tanks, that can hold up to 15 million barrels of crude, gasoline,...
This shut-down Texaco refinery emits insoluable petroleum globs into the North Platte River, immediately adjacent to the plant. The Sierra Club and others have claimed that arsenic, benzene and ammonia (just to name a few of the dangerous substances cited) were buried in unlined pits next to the...
One of the biggest petrochemical refineries in the world, and one of several large refinery complexes owned by ExxonMobil.
Major petrochemical and plastics plant, and one of four chemical plants operated by ExxonMobil in the Baton Rouge area. Located along "petrochemical alley", one of the nation's largest industrial corridors, with plastics plants and chemical plants lining both banks of the Mississippi River, between...
With a refining capacity of over 550,000 barrels per day, this is the largest refinery in the United States. And with 2,400 acres of intensely industrialized land within its perimeter, this is one of the largest industrial sites in the world. In addition to the refinery, ExxonMobil Chemical...
The Ferndale Refinery is one of four refineries on the northern Washington coast, where nearly all of the gasoline produced in the state comes from. The plant processes almost 100,000 barrels of crude per day. It was operated by Tosco until it was purchased by Conoco Phillips in 2001.
The most productive single oil well in California, spewed as much as 90,000 barrels of oil a day, for 18 months when it was first tapped in 1910. A 60-acre lake of oil formed on the site, on which several people floated about in small skiffs. Eventually 2000 wooden oil derricks were erected to...
Long Wharf handles more tonnage than any other pier on the bay, as this is the main pier for the Chevron Refinery. A three foot diameter pipe removes an average of ten million gallons of crude oil per day off tanker ships, primarily from Alaska and a few from the Middle East.
Located on the Delaware River, this is the second largest refinery in the northeast, capable of processing 190,000 barrels a day. Owned by Sunoco. Employs around 700 people and openend in 1902.
The Martinez Refinery is the second largest refinery in the Bay Area, after Chevron, and was the first American refinery built by the Shell Oil company, in 1915. It is operated by Equilon, a joint partnership of Shell and Texaco. Today it employs 900 people and processes around 165,000 barrels of...
This is one of the most productive oil fields in the country, and for 86 years it was owned by the federal government as part of the National Petroleum Reserve. In 1998, it was sold to Occidental petroleum for $3.65 billion, the largest federal divestiture in American history. The National...
Major petroleum refinery, with around 2,000 employees, and 130 acres. One of four oil refineries in the Norco area. The name of the community, Norco, comes from the New Orleans Refining Company, which built a refinery here in 1916. This same refinery has expanded into this plant which now produces...
This refinery, in the town of North Pole, is Alaska's largest. It processes up to 210,000 barrels of crude oil per day from the Trans-Alaska Pipeline into gasoline, jet fuel, heating oil, diesel, gas oil, and asphalt. Jet fuel, used by the airports and military bases in the state, comprises about...
A large chemical plant that produces chlorine, and potassium carbonates and bicarbonates, which are used in products such as PVC, detergent, chocolate, and fire extinguishers. OxyChem is the chemical division of Occidental Petroleum, and is a leading producer of these chlor-alkali products.
The refinery in Rodeo was the first of the five major oil refineries now operating on the shores of the Bay Area. The plant was built in 1896, and now covers more than 1,000 acres, and employs 500 people. It processes 100,000 barrels of crude per day, to make mostly gasoline. For years it was owned...
At four miles wide, what is generally referred to as BP Texas City, southeast of Houston, is one of the largest industrial sites in the world. The perimeter is intensely developed, and contains a number of plants and companies, connected to each other symbiotically by shared chemical products...
Major petrochemical plant, with adjacent facilities in Taft and Hahnville, that produces plastics, solvents, and other industrial chemicals. A Union Carbide resin plant across the river, the Cyprus Plant, uses stock material from Taft/Star polypropylene resin and catalyst. Union Carbide is now...
Unocal operated this $650 million oil shale plant from 1985 to 1990, and it has sat idle for most of the following decade. Oil shale was considered a significant source of energy into the 1980's, and geologic formations under western Colorado and eastern Utah were determined to be the richest...