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Lavera Refinery
Lavéra Refinery is an oil refinery complex located 30 miles west of Marseille, France, on the Mediterranean Sea. It is currently operated by Petroineos. History The Lavéra valley, known until the early 1950s locally as "L’Avéra", received its first oil installations during the 1920s, when the ''Société générale des Huiles de Pétrole'' (SGHP) selected the area to install storage tanks and an import terminal connected to the nearby railways using principally British capital. The SGHP later built the Lavéra Refinery at the same location, inaugurated on 3 October 1933 to complement the Berre Refinery (built in 1931), with the La Mède Refinery then following in 1935. Lavéra initially consisted of a storage tankage area located on the western side, with the eastern part containing the process units, and the offices and warehouses on the northern side. In 1954 SGHP became the ''Société Française des Pétroles British Petroleum'' (SFBP), owned by the British Petro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (commonly shortened to PACA), also known as Région Sud, is one of the eighteen Regions of France, administrative regions of France, located at the far southeastern point of the Metropolitan France, mainland. The main Prefectures in France, prefecture and largest city is Marseille, France's third largest city after Paris and Lyon and the 2nd largest urban area when combined with Aix-en-Provence with slightly less than one million residents. History The region is roughly coterminous with the former Provinces of France, French province of Provence, with the addition of the following adjacent areas: the former Pope, papal territory of Avignon, known as Comtat Venaissin; the former Kingdom of Sardinia, Sardinian-Piedmontese County of Nice annexed in 1860, whose coastline is known in English as the French Riviera and in French as the ''Côte d'Azur''; and the southeastern part of the former French province of Dauphiné, in the French Alps. Previously known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petrol
Gasoline (North American English) or petrol ( Commonwealth English) is a petrochemical product characterized as a transparent, yellowish, and flammable liquid normally used as a fuel for spark-ignited internal combustion engines. When formulated as a fuel for engines, gasoline is chemically composed of organic compounds derived from the fractional distillation of petroleum and later chemically enhanced with gasoline additives. It is a high-volume profitable product produced in crude oil refineries. The ability of a particular gasoline blend to resist premature ignition (which causes knocking and reduces efficiency in reciprocating engines) is measured by its octane rating. Tetraethyl lead was once widely used to increase the octane rating but is not used in modern automotive gasoline due to the health hazard. Aviation, off-road motor vehicles, and racing car engines still use leaded gasolines. Other substances are frequently added to gasoline to improve chemical stabilit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BP Buildings And Structures
BP p.l.c. (formerly The British Petroleum Company p.l.c. and BP Amoco p.l.c.; stylised in all lowercase) is a British Multinational corporation, multinational petroleum, oil and natural gas, gas company headquartered in London, England. It is one of the oil and gas "big Oil, supermajors" and one of the List of largest companies by revenue, world's largest companies measured by revenues and profits. It is a Vertical integration, vertically integrated company operating in all areas of the oil and gas industry, including Hydrocarbon exploration, exploration and Extraction of petroleum, extraction, refining, Midstream, distribution and marketing, power generation, and Trade, trading. BP's origins date back to the founding of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in 1909, established as a subsidiary of Burmah Oil, Burmah Oil Company to exploit oil discoveries in Iran. In 1935, it became the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and in 1954, adopted the name British Petroleum. BP acquired majority contr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
