Yorktown Refinery


Yorktown Refinery was an oil refinery located alongside of the York River built in 1956. It is now used by Plains All American Pipeline LP as a rail and water oil terminal.
The refinery used to be operated by Giant Industries and earlier operated by BP/Amoco. Giant Industries was acquired by Western Refining in 2007. The refinery could run high TAN crude oil. The refining operations were shut down in the fall of 2010 and the refinery was later demolished.