Sentence examples for refineries and distribution from inspiring English sources

More than a century ago, Standard Oil created a dominant advantage through the scale economies of its large refineries and distribution system.

One of them, the South Penn Oil Company, was founded on May 27 , 1889 as an oil-producing unit of the Standard Oil Trust, which at that time owned refineries and distribution networks but no producing oil wells.

"Due to economic pressures, it has become necessary for many organisations to centralise some of the management and control functions that would have previously been local to industrial plants, refineries, and distribution facilities.

Refineries and distribution centers cluster near the port, while energy companies and other major employers tend to establish a presence, either downtown or in a submarket, and stick to that area indefinitely.

The proposed mathematical programming model optimizes the numbers, locations and capacities of JCL cultivation centers, JCL seeds and WCO collection centers, bio-refineries, and distribution centers.

Structural problems with Mexico's oil refinery and distribution system have compounded the problems, leading to fuel shortages at some gas stations in recent days and spawning a black market for fuel in some states, Piñon said.

This ready-made bio-crude is compatible with, and can be directly processed by the existing petrochemical refinery and distribution infrastructure to yield jet fuel, gasoline, and diesel with little coke formation [ 9].

Government officials and industry experts have said that the hurricane not only cut off power to many gas stations but also caused widespread damage to refineries and a distribution network of ports and terminals that delivers gas to the pumps.

That included Sinclair's Wyoming refinery, gathering and distribution pipelines and several hundred Sinclair-owned service stations -- plus the well-known Sinclair name.

And refiner Valero simply bought an Exxon refinery and retail distribution chain.

Other exposures considered low: for those industry groups where benzene exposure occurred at low levels, i.e., likely to be below 1 p.p.m., including refinery and oil distribution workers (Runion, 1988; Schnatter et al, 2005), an overall RR of 1.11 (95% CI=0.3 2.83) was selected from a study by Bloemen et al (2004).