Search Results: Petrochemical
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...
This plant, located adjacent to a Goodyear facility, is one of the major synthetic rubber plants in the country. It was built during the rapid expansion of synthetic rubber production brought on by WWII, when the Japanese controlled much of the natural rubber areas in...
Texas Petrochemicals bought this olefins plant in 2006, the second of two major plants owned by Texas Petrochemicals, a relatively small petrochemical company based in Houston (the first plant was a large synthetic rubber plant in Houston). The Port Neches facility...
Though small compared to many of the global companies operating in the region, Texas Petrochemicals is one of the largest suppliers of butadiene in the country, a feedstock for synthetic rubber, and carpet nylon. Texas Petrochemicals bought the Houston butadiene plant...
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...
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...
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...
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...
One of the biggest petrochemical refineries in the world, and one of several large refinery complexes owned by ExxonMobil.
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...
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...
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...
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.
One of a few major oilfields in the country that have been set aside as reserves, to be used only in the event of a national crisis or shortage. Called "naval" reserves, as they were established initially as fuel supplies for naval ships. This reserve site was made...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Part of the nation's Emergency Oil Stockpile, the Bayou Choctaw site holds 72 million barrels of crude oil. The site is connected to the St. James terminal on the Mississippi River by a 37-mile, 36-inch-diameter pipeline. The reserve originally consisted of four...
Part of the nation's Emergency Oil Stockpile. Originally, five previously developed brine caverns were acquired and converted to 49-million-barrels of oil storage capacity. The Department of Energy has since developed 17 additional 10- million-barrel storage caverns to...