Sentence examples for built a refinery for from inspiring English sources

Wait a minute — they haven't built a refinery for 32 years.

Sudan had built a refinery, north of Khartoum, which provides gasoline for domestic consumption and an export market that demands unleaded.

Foreseeing a demand for petroleum products, he built a refinery, and also invested his own money in the Lac La Belle, a swift Great Lakes steamer.

Mr Chávez has promised to build a refinery in Nicaragua.There is unlikely to be sufficient demand for both refineries.

The concern also had applied to build a refinery.

Sasol of South Africa hopes to build a refinery in Louisiana to turn gas into petrol.

The residents of a Scottish town where a Texas oil baron would like to build a refinery want to sell the town; they do not "foil the attempts" of the oil baron to build the refinery.

It believed its bonanza had for once put it at an advantage: instead of importing oil through the Kenyan port of Mombasa, it would build a refinery and export petroleum products to Kenya at a premium.

Sir Richard Branson, you see, has decided he has had enough of being at the mercy of the oil companies: The man who has built his own music company, airline and cell phone carrier is planning to put $100 million of his fortune into a plan to build a $2 billion refinery for airline fuel.

"We haven't built a new refinery in this country for three decades," Lee Raymond, the chairman of Exxon Mobil, the nation's largest energy company, told reporters this week after the company's annual meeting.

US Sugar recently built a new refinery, the first in America for decades; Flo-Sun bought one in New York from a Canadian firm earlier this year.