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2. Pennsylvania oil rush - Wikipedia

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   The rush to Pennsylvania created violent swings in the petroleum market for the first decade of the oil boom. In 1861, the proliferation of wells across the Oil Creek Valley pushed the price of oil down from $10 a barrel to 10 cents a barrel. In response, producers in the region formed the Oil Creek Association to restrict output and maintain a ...

3. Trainer Refinery - Wikipedia

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   Refinery details. Owner (s) Monroe Energy, LLC ( Delta Air Lines) Capacity. 185,000 bbl/d (29,400 m 3 /d) Trainer Refinery is an oil refining facility located in Trainer, Pennsylvania. The facility is downstream from the Port of Chester and fifteen miles southwest of Philadelphia along the Delaware River. Stoney Creek is along its northern ...

4. United Refining Company - Wikipedia

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   United Refining Company. The United Refining Company ( URC) is an oil company in Warren, Pennsylvania. The company operates an oil refinery in Warren that can process 70,000 barrels of crude oil into gasoline, diesel fuel and other petroleum distillates per day. [1] It distributes gasoline under the Kwik Fill and Keystone brands.

5. Drake Well - Wikipedia

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   November 13, 1966. The Drake Well is a 69.5-foot-deep (21.2 m) oil well in Cherrytree Township, Pennsylvania, the success of which sparked the first oil boom in the United States. The well is the centerpiece of the Drake Well Museum located 3 miles (5 km) south of Titusville . Drilled by Edwin Drake in 1859, along the banks of Oil Creek, it is ...

6. Shell Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex - Wikipedia

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   The Shell Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex, [2] [3] [4] formally known as Shell Polymers Monaca, is an ethylene cracker plant located in Potter Township, Pennsylvania, United States, owned and operated by Shell Oil Company, the American subsidiary of supermajor oil company Royal Dutch Shell. [5] The plant is near the interchange of ...

7. Pennsylvania county joins other local governments in suing ...

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   A large suburban Philadelphia county has joined dozens of other local governments around the country in suing the oil industry, asserting that major oil producers systematically deceived the ...