Wood River Refinery, the Glossary
The Wood River Refinery is an oil refinery located in Roxana, Illinois, approximately north of St. Louis, Missouri, on the east side of the Mississippi River.[1]
Table of Contents
19 relations: Canada, Cenovus Energy, Christina Lake (Alberta), Coker unit, Encana, Gasoline, Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi River, Motiva Enterprises, Oil refinery, Oil sands, Petroleum, Phillips 66, Roxana, Illinois, Saudi Aramco, Shell plc, St. Louis, Texaco, Tosco Corporation.
- Energy infrastructure completed in 1917
- Energy infrastructure in Illinois
- Oil refineries in the United States
- Phillips 66
Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
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Cenovus Energy
Cenovus Energy Inc. (pronounced se-nō-vus) is a Canadian integrated oil and natural gas company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta.
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Christina Lake (Alberta)
Christina Lake is an elongate lake in northern Alberta, Canada, located near Highway 881 east of Conklin, between Lac La Biche and Fort McMurray.
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Coker unit
A coker or coker unit is an oil refinery processing unit that converts the residual oil from the vacuum distillation column into low molecular weight hydrocarbon gases, naphtha, light and heavy gas oils, and petroleum coke.
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Encana
Encana Corporation was a Canadian independent petroleum company that existed from 2002 to 2020.
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Gasoline
Gasoline or petrol is a petrochemical product characterized as a transparent, yellowish, and flammable liquid normally used as a fuel for spark-ignited internal combustion engines.
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Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent.
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Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the primary river and second-longest river of the largest drainage basin in the United States.
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Motiva Enterprises
Motiva Enterprises, LLC is an American company that operates as a wholly owned US subsidiary of Saudi Aramco.
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Oil refinery
An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refined into products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, asphalt base, fuel oils, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas and petroleum naphtha.
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Oil sands
Oil sands, tar sands, crude bitumen, or bituminous sands, are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit.
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Petroleum
Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations.
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Phillips 66
The Phillips 66 Company is an American multinational energy company headquartered in Westchase, Houston, Texas.
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Roxana, Illinois
Roxana is a village in Madison County, Illinois, United States.
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Saudi Aramco
Saudi Aramco (أرامكو السعودية), officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Group or simply Aramco (formerly Arabian-American Oil Company), is a state-owned petroleum and natural gas company that is the national oil company of Saudi Arabia.
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Shell plc
Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.
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Texaco
Texaco, Inc. ("The Texas Company") is an American oil brand owned and operated by Chevron Corporation.
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Tosco Corporation
Tosco (The Oil Shale COrporation) was an independent US based petroleum refining and marketing corporation based in Stamford, Connecticut.
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See also
Energy infrastructure completed in 1917
- Great Falls Dam (Tennessee)
- McCarthy Power Plant
- Stevenson Dam Hydroelectric Plant
- Wood River Refinery
Energy infrastructure in Illinois
- Enbridge Pipeline System
- Guardian Pipeline
- Horizon Pipeline
- Lemont Refinery
- Morris Operation
- Nicor Gas
- Wood River Refinery
Oil refineries in the United States
- Baton Rouge Refinery
- Bayway Refinery
- Billings Refinery (Par Pacific)
- Billings Refinery (Phillips 66)
- C and H Refinery Historic District
- Calumet Montana Refining
- Catlettsburg Refinery
- Chilkat Oil Company Refinery Site
- Coffeyville Resources
- Delaware City Refinery
- El Dorado Refinery
- Gallup Refinery
- Garyville Refinery
- Gorilla Project
- Laurel Refinery
- Lemont Refinery
- Mandan Refinery
- Marathon Martinez Renewable Fuels
- Perth Amboy Refinery
- Pine Bend Refinery
- Pioneer Oil Refinery
- Port Reading Refinery
- Port of Paulsboro
- Trainer Refinery
- Wamsutta Oil Refinery
- Whiting Refinery
- Wood River Refinery
- Yorktown Refinery
Phillips 66
- 2000 Phillips explosion
- 2001 Humber Refinery explosion
- 76 (gas station)
- Bayway Refinery
- Billings Refinery (Phillips 66)
- Chevron Phillips Chemical
- Conoco
- Ferndale Refinery
- Humber Refinery
- Jet (brand)
- Phillips 66
- Phillips Petroleum Company
- Phillips disaster of 1989
- Phillips, Texas
- Rockies Express Pipeline
- Rodeo San Francisco Refinery
- Wood River Refinery