Search Results: Gas production
The Exell Helium Plant is the last remaining government helium plant, in an area that in the 1960's produced 95% of the World's recoverable helium. Exell began production in 1943, producing helium for air ships during World War Two. It was operated by the Federal...
The El Paso Company owns the largest gas pipeline in the country, a 42,000 mile network that carries more than a quarter of the natural gas consumed in the United States. In addition, the company explores and produces gas wells, on shore and in the Gulf of Mexico. The...
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...
Anadarko Petroleum is an independent oil exploration and production company, based in the Woodlands, north of Houston. Companies in this field seek out and develop new or existing oil and gas fields, generating revenue primarily by discovering, developing, and leasing...
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...
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...
FMC Technologies is a supplier of oil well production and processing technologies, a specialist in elaborate systems to distribute and process oil and gas on the seafloor itself. The company's headquarters is located at its principal engineering and manufacturing...
Smith International is a supplier of products and services to the oil and gas exploration and production industry. It has three principal subsidiaries: Wilson, a large oil field equipment and hardware supplier; Smith Technologies, which specializes in drill bits and...
Eastman's plant in Longview, in northeastern Texas, is among the largest petrochemical plants in Texas. It has 200 buildings on 6,000 acres, and employs over 1,500 people. Feedstocks of ethane and propane come to the plant from refineries along the gulf, via pipeline,...
Also known as the Channelview Chemical Complex, this is a major petrochemical plant employing 1,800 people, and totaling 4,000 acres. It began operation in 1957, as Texas Butadiene and Chemical, and later became an Equistar plant, a company subsidiary of Houston-based...
This is a major independently owned “movie ranch” in southern California, surrounded by open space, north of the tract homes of Valencia. It has a Mexican/Spanish/European/Middle Eastern town, a Wild West town, a Mid American Main Street, and a “last chance” gas...
This is an independently owned “movie ranch,” in southern California, surrounded by hundreds of acres of open space, north of the tract homes of Valencia. Several town sets are here, including a Mexican town, a Middle Eastern urban square, an American 1950s town, an...
Travelers on 150th Street East, in the open desert east of Lancaster, might imagine they are approaching such a place, despite the unlikely location (Route 66 never came near here - 150th Street is part of a grid carved out of the desert as part of development plans...
27 square miles of what has been called by many "the most toxic land in America." The only mission at the site now is clean-up. The sprawling plant was established in WWII to manufacture chemical weapons such as mustard gas and napalm. It was later taken over by...
McDermott makes offshore production facilities, pipelines, power plants, and other energy infrastructure. From its origins as a marine contractor in the marshlands of Texas and Louisiana, McDermott now has more than 20,000 employees, making some of the largest offshore...
This is one of the largest petrochemical plants in Western Texas. It was built by the El Paso Gas Company, to use the hydrocarbons that the company handled along its extensive pipeline system, to make styrene and butadiene to for a local General Tire rubber plant. Over...
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...
Part of the nation's Emergency Oil Stockpile until it was sold due to structural integrity concerns in the vault, in the late 1990's. The Weeks Island site was the Strategic Petroleum Reserve's only mechanically mined storage site. Between 1977 and 1992, a system of...