• Already he has quietly cancelled a promise to build an oil refinery in Nicaragua.

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  • The government talks of a national network of airports, an oil refinery on the coast and more.

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  • By day, he's an inspector at an oil refinery, checking pipes and welding.

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  • But let me tell you: if Iraq descends into that point, it's going to be like an oil refinery catching fire.

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  • In the late 1960s, Mr. Holding moved into the gasoline business with the acquisition of an oil refinery in Casper, Wyo.

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  • An oil refinery and ammunition dumps have been struck and reconnaissance photographs show about 20 separate fires raging across the beseiged capital.

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  • Delta is even now finalising a deal to buy an oil refinery.

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  • There have been more airstrikes on the oil port of Ras Lanuf, with an oil refinery and a rebel checkpoint among the targets.

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  • Mr Museveni seems dazzled by Chinese promises to help build an oil refinery and to help turn oil into Ugandan-produced plastics and fertiliser.

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  • He wants, among other plans, to build an international airport in the Jordan valley, an oil refinery and rail links to neighbouring countries.

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  • Remedial work at Rho posed all the usual challenges that go with dismantling an oil refinery and ridding the site of hydrocarbon and metal residuals.

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  • Renamed Cornerstone Natural Gas, Endevco sold off an oil refinery and some pipeline assets to help pay down debt, and trimmed staff to lower operating costs.

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  • An oil refinery, by comparison, would cost billions to construct.

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  • Despite narrowly escaping capture and suffering a leg wound during a shootout with the Gestapo, he provided key information on an oil refinery and an underground V-1 rocket factory.

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  • The group gets paid to do things like restore electrical infrastructure in Kosovo and set up remote monitoring links between an oil refinery in Houston and Cutler-Hammer's offices in Warrendale, Pa.

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  • Earlier this year, when Lithuania had the temerity to sell an oil refinery to a Polish firm instead of a Russian one, the pipeline that supplies the refinery with Russian oil suddenly succumbed to a mysterious technical fault.

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  • Steve Hodge, treasurer of Shell, an Anglo-Dutch oil giant, says that a difference of only one percentage point in the discount rate can change the value of, say, an oil refinery with a 15-year life by hundreds of millions of dollars.

    ECONOMIST: Corporate finance

  • On June 26th a militia near Ras Lanuf, an oil-refinery town, blocked the main coastal road, demanding more seats for easterners in the national congress.

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  • In his reluctant court appearances, Abramovich testified that Berezovsky indeed persuaded Yeltsin to merge a Siberian oil field and an Omsk refinery into the new company, Sibneft.

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  • Israeli airstrikes against a Lebanese oil refinery created an oil slick that has polluted some 80 miles of Mediterranean coastline, leaving the filthy beaches deserted at the height of the tourist season.

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  • An explosion at a BP oil refinery in Texas in 2005 that killed 15 workers, a series of other safety concerns and allegations that the company fixed propane prices have battered its reputation in America.

    ECONOMIST: A slick off America's coast

  • For an oil executive trying to decide on a refinery investment, picking who's right is a tough call.

    CNN: Behind high gas prices: The refinery crunch

  • Three east coast refineries have been shut down in the past four months (first Sunoco, then Valero, and most recently Shell announced Jan. 7 it would shutter its Montreal refinery and turn the site into an oil terminal).

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  • There will be employment for about 1, 000 while wells are drilled, an oil-collection centre built and a pipeline laid to a refinery at Taranto.

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  • Fred returned to the U.S. on the eve of World War II and built an even larger fortune around Rock Island Refining, a refinery and oil-gathering pipeline system in southern Oklahoma, and a part-interest in a refinery outside of Minneapolis.

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  • All the applications opposed by Fort McMurray officials were ultimately approved, and just a few months ago an American company, Hyperion Resources, announced plans to build the first new oil refinery in this country in thirty years, to handle increasing volumes of tar-sands crude.

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  • The family business Charles inherited consisted of an engineering firm, part-interest in a Minnesota refinery, a crude-oil-gathering pipeline in Oklahoma and some cattle ranches.

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  • An aging refinery infrastructure, increased domestic gasoline consumption, unexpected distribution disruptions and dwindling oil and gasoline reserves have pushed the U.S. to the edge.

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  • But critics have accused the firm of neglecting maintenance as it funnels oil revenue into government social programmes, especially after an explosion in August at the Amuay refinery, the country's largest, in which 42 people were killed.

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  • His final years were marred by a succession of devastating accidents an explosion at BP's Texas City refinery in 2005 that killed 15 workers and injured 170 others, and an oil spill a year later that dumped 4, 800 barrels of oil at Prudhoe Bay, on the coast of Alaska.

    ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

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