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Pine Bend Refinery : ウィキペディア英語版 | Pine Bend Refinery The Pine Bend Refinery is the largest oil refinery in Minnesota, located in the Twin Cities suburbs of Rosemount and Inver Grove Heights next to southern split of U.S. Highway 52 and Minnesota State Highway 55. The refinery is notable for being the largest in the United States to be located in a state without any oil wells. Overall, it ranked 14th in the country as of 2012 by production, with a nameplate capacity of per day.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.eia.doe.gov/neic/rankings/refineries.htm )〕 The facility is owned by Flint Hills Resources (FHR), a subsidiary of Koch Industries. ==History== The plant was first constructed in 1955 by the Great Northern Oil Company with a capacity of 25,000 barrels per day. Koch Industries purchased a controlling interest in the plant in 1969. Since then, capacity has grown more than tenfold. As of 2001, Minnesotans were using a total of of gasoline per day, and fuel use continues to climb in the region by about 2% annually.〔Gendler, Neal (July 2, 2005). ("The Big Gulp." ) ''Star Tribune''.〕 About 70% of the gasoline fuel used in the state comes from Pine Bend and the nearby St. Paul Park Refinery, while most of the rest comes from the Mandan Refinery in North Dakota, and the Superior Refinery in Superior, Wisconsin. Only 40 to 50% of Pine Bend's output is used within the state.
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