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
- Surry Nuclear Power Plant 23 km
- Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipyard 23 km
- Norfolk Naval Shipyard 45 km
- Iluka Titanium Mine, Concord Plant 106 km
- Skippers Stone Quarry 121 km
- Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant 136 km
- North Anna Nuclear Generating Station 152 km
- Chalk Point Generating Station 152 km
- Aerojet Propellant Lab 180 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