There he worked on the refining of petroleum, methods of testing, analysis of the composition of crude oils, and the abatement of nuisances arising from smoke, odors, and other products of refineries.
Because of the high capacity, many of the units operate continuously, as opposed to processing in batches, at steady state or nearly steady state for months to years.
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Flying unescorted in the face of severe enemy attack, the 16th bombed the Maruzen Oil refinery at Shimotsu on the night of 2 July 1945; the Mitsubishi refinery and Kawasaki oil installations at Kawasaki on the night of 12–13 July 1945, and the coal liquefication plants at Ube on 22–23 July 1945.
Essar Oil owns and operates a petroleum refinery in Vadinar, India's second largest, which has a capacity of 18 million metric tons per annum.
Fawley is also the site of an oil refinery, operated by ExxonMobil, which is the largest facility of its kind in the United Kingdom.
Frederiksted is home to one of two deep water ports on St. Croix, the other being located at the South Port which includes Hovensa oil refinery tank farm and Renaissance Industrial Park.
Gasparillo owes much of its size to its proximity to the Petrotrin oil refinery at Pointe-à-Pierre.
Among his larger real estate transactions were the sale of properties for the Standard Oil (now Chevron) refinery at what became El Segundo and the Army's Fort MacArthur at San Pedro.
The river is heavily polluted, both by non-point agricultural and residential run-off from Marabella and the town of Gasparillo, and from industrial waste (primarily oily run-off) from the oil refinery at Pointe-a-Pierre owned by Petrotrin (the State-owned oil company).
Only three 1720 systems were ever built: one for the Amoco oil refinery in Whiting, Indiana; one for the Socal oil refinery in El Segundo, California; and one for E. I. du Pont in Wilmington, Delaware.
After a short stint in American he returned to India and worked for short periods at Caltex Oil Refinery, Orient General Industries and Associated Electrical Industries.
This town was supported by a large oil refinery in the world, which at that time was owned by a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, known as Lago Oil and Transport Company Lago had its beginning in 1924 as a trans-shipping facility for crude oil extracted by the Lago Petroleum Corporation operating in Lake Maracaibo.
All the company's oil went through refineries owned by Central Asian Industrial Holdings N.V. (CAIH), a Dutch-registered offshore affiliate of Kazkommertsbank (KKB) Kazakhstan's leading banking group, which used their monopoly to charge high prices.
Today, Petrotrin operates Trinidad and Tobago's single petroleum refinery, located at Pointe-à-Pierre, just north of San Fernando in south Trinidad.
The Pine Bend Refinery is the largest oil refinery in Minnesota, located in the Twin Cities suburbs of Rosemount and Inver Grove Heights next to southern split of U.S. Highway 52 and Minnesota State Highway 55.
It is most famous as the site of the country's largest (and now, only) oil refinery which is run by Petrotrin, the state-owned oil company.
Gazprom considers to build an oil refinery in Teriberka at the location of the LNG plant of the Shtokman's development for processing oil from Prirazlomnoye and Dolginskoye fields.
Dumas was responsible for extensive land development in the district governed by the Albany Zone Development Committee, and negotiated the establishment of an oil refinery, steel rolling mill and cement works at Kwinana.
Today, Sisak features the largest Croatian metallurgic factory (supported by the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Metallurgy also in the city) and the largest oil refinery.
There is also a large Shell Oil refinery in nearby Wilmington and the massive Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF) on the neighborhood's western edge.
The tactic of radar bombing by individual aircraft was used during attacks on the Mitsubishi-Hayama petroleum complex on the night of 1–2 August 1945; the Nippon Oil refinery and tank farm at Amagasaki on 9–10 August 1845 and the final target of the war for the 16th group the Nippon Oil refinery at Tsuchizaki on 15 August 1945.
The major oil refinery did not sustain damage, according to Hojjatollah Ghanimifard, the vice-president of investment affairs for National Iranian Oil Company.
Despite the hazards of bad weather, fighter attacks, and heavy flak, the 331st bombed the coal liquefaction plant at Ube, the Mitsubishi-Hayama petroleum complex at Kawasaki, and the oil refinery and storage facilities at Shimotsu, in July and August 1945, and received a Distinguished Unit Citation for the missions.
Notable missions of the Oil Campaign of World War II included bombings of the Ploesti Concordia Vega refinery on 18 May 1944, the marshalling yards and oil refinery at Vienna on 8 July 1944 (1st DUC), and the Pardubice oil refinery and nearby railroad tracks on 24 August 1944 (2nd DUC).
On two different missions – to marshalling yards and an oil refinery at Vienna on 8 July 1944 and to steel plants at Friedrichshafen on 3 August 1944 – the group bombed its targets despite antiaircraft fire and fighter opposition, being awarded a Distinguished Unit Citation (DUC) for each of these attacks.
Alon USA was formed after Alon Oil Company Ltd, purchased over 1,700 FINA retail stations, an oil refinery, pipelines and terminals in the US from Total S.A..
It is named for the "Apollo" (modern successor: Slovnaft) oil refinery which was situated on the left river bank in this area before World War II.
Among these is the oil company CNOOC, which early in 2012 acquired one third of the exploitation of Uganda's oil in the Albertine region of Uganda and will be involved in the construction of an oil refinery in the country.
An oil refinery is currently under construction in the outskirts of the city along the Oron road.
In May 2008 the Kuwait National Petroleum Co. (KNPC) awarded a construction contract to a consortium of Asian companies—Japan's JGC Corp., South Korea’s GS, SK, Daelim Industrial, and Hyundai—and a consulting contract to Fluor to build an oil refinery, which would be Kuwait's fourth.
The crude oil extracted at Galkynysh is transported to the Seýdi Oil Refinery.
The company wholly or partly owns 5 oil refineries (the Omsk Oil Refinery, Moscow Oil Refinery, Slavneft-Yaroslavnefteorgsintez (YANOS) and two oil refineries in Pančevo and Novi Sad that belong to Naftna Industrija Srbije).
The bridge passes over an oil refinery (originally owned by Gulf Oil, now by Sun Oil).
The Vardinoyannis family own the independent oil refinery Motor Oil Hellas, in whose Board of Directors Yannis Vardinoyannis also serves and shipping company Avin International S.A.
Shuler was born in Wrightsboro, Texas, and moved to Lake Charles in 1942 to work in an oil refinery.
During the World War, the town suffered aerial bombings during the Oil Campaign of World War II in 1944, because of its vicinity to an oil refinery in the Lobau.
During the Oil Campaign of World War II, the Deutsche Erdöl-Aktiengesellschaft oil refinery at Hemmingstedt, near Heide, was bombed several times, including attacks using Azon and Operation Aphrodite guided missiles.
The station and accompanying parking would be on property of the Citgo oil refinery between Lemont and Lockport.
It served many different people, but mostly workers from the nearby Standard Oil refinery (now the Chevron Richmond Refinery).
A Caltex oil refinery was set up in the area, and a long oil jetty with a pipeline was built.
Cenex Harvest States oil refinery, Montana Rail Link, Laurel School District 7-70, and Wood's Power Grip comprise the major employers in Laurel.
However, the unclassified road that runs through the village is used as the main route to the Valero oil refinery and Pembroke Power Station.
Martua along with Kuok Khoon Hong, the nephew of Malaysia's richest tycoon Robert Kuok, founded Wilmar International Limited and by 1991 he owned 7.100 hectare of palm tree plantations, and also build his own palm oil refinery in North Sumatera.
To cope with this demand growth, the commission began construction of the oil-fired Courtenay Bay Generating Station, near the Saint John shipyard in 1959; it was also adjacent to the Irving Oil Refinery, which entered service in the late 1950s and which the Courtney Bay GS made use of a pipeline running from the Canaport offshore loading facility at Red Head to the refinery.
Terry Hardy, an oil refinery worker running as the candidate of the Socialist Workers Party.
On 29 January, the second raid, Operation Meridian Two, an air strike against the oil refinery at Soengei Gerong, Sumatra, took place.
Petrofina expanded its operations to the United States in 1956 with the purchase of Texas-based Panhandle Oil Company, which was headquartered in Wichita Falls, Texas, where the firm operated an oil refinery and marketed gasoline through service stations in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico.
American Petrofina, as the United States operation was called, further expanded its presence in the US through the purchase of several small oil companies, the largest being the Cosden Oil Company from W.R. Grace in 1963, which gave FINA a very large chain of service stations in Texas and New Mexico along with an oil refinery in Big Spring, Texas.
The 388th received another DUC for three outstanding missions: an attack against a tire and rubber factory in Hanover on 26 July 1943; the bombardment of a synthetic oil refinery in Brux on 12 May 1944; and a strike against a synthetic oil refinery at Ruhland on 21 June 1944, during a shuttle raid from England to the Soviet Union.
His administration coincided with rapid post-war expansion of the Western Australian economy and, in 1950, conducted negotiations with BP to develop an oil refinery at Kwinana which subsequently developed into the state's main industrial district.
Captains of the Ports of Houston and Galveston objected to its location close to manufacturing plants, shipyards and an oil refinery, but the US Coast Guard approved the project.
On 31 January 1974, four terrorists attacked the Shell oil refinery complex on Pulau Bukom and hijacked the ferryboat Laju and took five hostages.
During the Oil Campaign of World War II, the Szőny oil refinery was a strategic bombing target.
:*Tranmere Oil Terminal, docking facility on River Mersey with pipeline to Stanlow oil refinery
At present, among other positions he serves as the Executive Vice Chairman of the independent oil refinery Motor Oil Hellas.