Sentence examples for run the refinery from inspiring English sources

My father helped to start and to run the refinery; I completed all eight grades at Esso Elementary School.

It would be very difficult, although not impossible, to run the refinery while continuing to install further wiring.

Mr. Majors is convinced Yukos will run the refinery as a business, not as a wedge for Russian political interests.

For example, not so many years ago it would have seemed inevitable that Chevron, currently the third biggest corporation in the country, would run the refinery town of Richmond, California, as its own private fiefdom.

Eager to turn California's devotion to gasoline into income for his work, Mr. Robertson chose Mr. Happy to run the refinery, only to replace him last November after a federal district court in Los Angeles issued what turned into a disabling decision.

Rafael Ramírez, the energy minister, who is president of Pétroleos de Venezuela, the state-owned oil company that runs the refinery complex, said the blast occurred at 1 15 a.m. and was caused by a gas leak.

There's another company running the refinery, which comes under the joint ownership of Ineos and Petro-China.

Mark Tilly, a lanky major in the Royal Engineers, the British equivalent of the Army Corps of Engineers, had been running the Basra refinery since March, together with some Iraqi managers, but his progress was hampered by a lack of equipment and raw materials.

Mr. Obasanjo expects that higher fuel prices will make the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation financially independent and better able to run the country's creaking refineries.

In recent months this has run the gamut from multibillion-dollar deals for Chinese investment in Iranian oil refineries, to plans to run a bank and assemble Iranian cars in the despotic, weapons-mongering state of Belarus as well as build an amusement park in the Belarusian capital of Minsk.

For decades, the same men who ran the city's refineries also ran the city, and did so with the attitude that government should stay out of the way of business and development.