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2 unusual facts about refinery


Risk-based inspection

Following an explosion in April 2001, the ConocoPhillips-owned Humber Refinery in the United Kingdom was found guilty of failing to appropriately monitor the deterioration of its pipework.

The Settlers: Heritage of Kings

However, in Heritage of Kings, the introduction of refineries for the various resources enabled players to construct more buildings in less time and make running out of resources less of an issue.


16th Bombardment Group

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.

465th Bombardment Wing

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.

Al Zour Refinery

However, in June 2011, the Supreme Petroleum Council—Kuwait's oil agency—re-approved construction of the refinery in Al Ahmadi, Kuwait.

Alon USA

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..

Apollo Bridge

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.

Birch Monroe

In 1934, Birch chose the stability of working at the refinery to support his sisters while Charlie and Bill went on to perform on KFNF in Shenandoah, Iowa.

Charles Thomas McGlew

McGlew was a pioneer in the salt industry in South Australia, having established in 1903 the Standard Salt Company which from 1912 operated a busy refinery at Edithburgh, exporting to Russia among other places.

China–Uganda relations

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.

Commewijne River

The Commewijne was important historically for navigation: huge barges with bauxite were transported from Moengo in the east to the confluence with the Surinam river and from there traveled southward via Paramaribo to the Paranam refinery.

Dan Ioan Popescu

After he graduated the courses of the Faculty of Industrial Chemistry, Dan Ioan Popescu remained in the County of Prahova where he worked first as an engineer for the Production Company Valea Călugărească (1971–1972), then as an engineer at the Institute for Research and Process Engineering in Petrochemistry and Refinery of Ploieşti (1972–1973).

Dol Ammad

The band derives its name from a fuel refinery in the computer game Descent 3.

ENVIRON

In the United States, the firm has worked with the Marathon Petroleum Company at its major gulf coast refinery in Garyville, Louisiana, to develop VOC BioTreat™, a patent-pending biotreatment solution to reduce volatile organic compound emissions at oil and chemical refineries.

Feyzin

The refinery near Feyzin was the location of an explosion and fire on January 4, 1966 which resulted in the deaths of 18 people and the injury of 81.

Feyzin disaster

The Feyzin disaster occurred in a refinery near the town of Feyzin, 10 kilometres (6 miles) south of Lyon, France), on 4 January 1966.

Fluor Corporation

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.

Gazprom Neft

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).

Geoff Wiles

He joined the local branch of the Youth Hostels Association and rode with enthusiasts there until a colleague at work at the BP refinery on the Isle of Grain in Kent, south-east England, persuaded him to join the Medway Road Club.

George H. Peck

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.

Heinrich Zimmermann

He spent time working at this in Geneva, Lyons and Paris before he arrived in London in 1776 where, after a short period of working in a sugar refinery, he joined HMS Discovery as an able seaman on 12 March of that year for James Cook's third voyage to the Pacific.

Hemmingstedt

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.

Heritage Corridor

The station and accompanying parking would be on property of the Citgo oil refinery between Lemont and Lockport.

IBM 1720

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.

Ilija Grgic

Since retiring from football, Grgic has had a successful professional career in the oil and gas industry, including serving as engineering manager at the Shell refinery in Geelong.

IsaKidd refining technology

The IsaKiddTM Technology is a copper electrorefining and electrowinning technology that was developed independently by Copper Refineries Proprietary Limited (“CRL”), a Townsville, Queensland subsidiary of MIM Holdings Limited (which is now part of the Glencore Xstrata group of companies), and at the Falconbridge Limited (“Falconbridge”) now-dismantled Kidd Creek refinery that was at Timmins, Ontario.

Karrick

Lewis Karrick (1890–1962), an American petroleum refinery engineer, oil shale and coal technologist, and inventor

Kuwait National Petroleum Company

The refinery spans 1,332,000 m² and is located 50 km south of Kuwait City within the Shuaiba Industrial Area.

Lago Colony

The refinery, now owned by Valero, was later purchased, reopened, then sut down again; in December 2010, Valero announced that the refinery was reopening.

Lewin's Mead

In the eighteenth century a Unitarian chapel, the Lewin's Mead Unitarian meeting house, designed by William Blackburn, was built adjacent to the sugar refinery.

Maduro Holding

Following the opening of the Panama Canal, Royal Dutch Shell established an important petroleum refinery in the port of Willemstad due to its naturally deep harbor, its stable government, and Curaçao's proximity to Venezuelan oil fields.

Maidenwells

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 Sitorus

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.

Mumbai–Manmad Pipeline

The experience in laying the Mumbai-Manmad-Bijwasan pipeline is being utilised by Bharat Petroleum to lay a crude-oil pipeline from Vadinar on the West coast to Bina in Madhya Pradesh, where a new 6 MMTPA grassroot refinery is coming up.

New Orleans mayoral election, 1986

Terry Hardy, an oil refinery worker running as the candidate of the Socialist Workers Party.

Nhulunbuy

In November 2013 Rio Tinto announced the closure of the aluminium refinery with the loss of 1,100 jobs, or almost 25% of the town's population.

Niki Ashton

Vale, which owned the refinery after it took over Canadian company Inco, had earlier received a $1 billion unsecured loan from the Harper Government, and under the Investment Canada Act signed a contractual agreement with the federal government.

Nuisance in English law

The House of Lords held that it had statutory authority to operate the refinery, saying "Parliament can hardly be supposed to have intended the refinery to be nothing more than a visual adornment to the landscape in an area of natural beauty".

Oil industry in Poland

The refinery purified oil extracted from rich fields of southern part of the Second Polish Republic (Gorlice, Boryslaw, Jasło, and Drohobych).

Oil Refineries

Construction of the refinery started in 1938 and was carried out by the M. W. Kellogg Co. with assistance from Solel Boneh, and was completed in 1944.

PetroDar

The pipeline connects the oil fields of the Melut Basin with the refinery and export terminal located at Port Sudan on the Red Sea.

RAF Knettishall

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.

Refinaria do Planalto Paulista

Refinaria de Paulínia or simply REPLAN is a petroleum refinery located in the city of Paulínia in the São Paulo state, in Brazil.

San Jacinto Ordnance Depot

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.

Shell Australia

Following the decision by the Royal Dutch Shell fuel corporation to close its Geelong, Australia refinery in April 2013, a third consecutive annual loss was recorded for Shell's Australian refining and fuel marketing assets.

TaiKoo Place

The current site of TaiKoo Place was previously the Taikoo Sugar Refinery and the dockyard.

The Software Refinery

The Software Refinery was a United Kingdom-based computer game development company formed by Ciaran Gultnieks, Ian Martin and Mark Griffiths.

Tranmere

:*Tranmere Oil Terminal, docking facility on River Mersey with pipeline to Stanlow oil refinery


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