Western Refining - Yorktown Oil Refinery
USA /
Virginia /
Gloucester Point /
World
/ USA
/ Virginia
/ Gloucester Point
World / United States / Virginia
production, oil refinery
The only oil refinery in Virginia. Originally it was Amoco Oil Refinery (AMerican Oil COmpany), then BP, now Giant owns it, but it is currently merging with another Company.
www.wnr.com/Refining.aspx
It closed in 2010
www.wnr.com/Refining.aspx
It closed in 2010
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorktown_Refinery
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 37°12'49"N 76°27'1"W
- Former Dow-Badische (BASF) acrylic plant. 15 km
- Copeland Industrial Park 22 km
- Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipyard 23 km
- Surry Nuclear Power Plant 23 km
- Smithfield Packing, Gwaltney Foods and Luters meat packing plants 29 km
- Norshipco Shipyards 44 km
- Norfolk Naval Shipyard 45 km
- Norfolk Naval Shipyard - South Gate Annex 47 km
- International Paper 72 km
- Hewlett Packard 76 km
- Electrical converter station 0.9 km
- Seaford Elementary School 3.1 km
- Seaford Baptist Church 3.1 km
- Seaford, Virginia 3.3 km
- Lafayette Gun Club 5.8 km
- Achilles Elementary School 7.2 km
- Harwood Mills Reservoir 7.5 km
- York County, Virginia 9 km
- Gloucester County, Virginia 23 km
- Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater 43 km