El Segundo Refinery

About

In the beach communities just south of Los Angeles International Airport, you will find homes, plenty of recreational activities, and lots of friendly people. You probably wouldn't expect to find the largest refinery on the West Coast, but you will. Can a major oil refinery really be a good neighbor in an environment like this? Chevron's El Segundo Refinery has strived to do so for nearly a century and we are proud of our record of contributions and results.

We've been a part of this community since 1911 when the main product produced was kerosene for lamps. In fact, the city of El Segundo (Spanish for "the Second") was named after the Refinery, then Standard Oil's second in California. Today, the El Segundo Refinery provides jobs for more than 1,000 people, covers approximately 1,000 acres, has more than 1,100 miles of pipelines, and is capable of refining over 270 thousand barrels of crude oil per day. Transportation fuels -- gasoline, jet and diesel -- are the primary products refined from the crude oil. We are responsible caretakers of our land and the environment, operate our own electricity, steam, and water treatment facilities, and even maintain one of the only two remaining preserves in the world for the endangered El Segundo Blue Butterfly. [1]