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Port Reading Refinery

Coordinates: 40°33′50″N 74°14′56″W / 40.564°N 74.249°W / 40.564; -74.249
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Port Reading Refinery
Port Reading Refinery is located in Middlesex County, New Jersey
Port Reading Refinery
Location of the Port Reading Refinery
Port Reading Refinery is located in New Jersey
Port Reading Refinery
Port Reading Refinery (New Jersey)
Port Reading Refinery is located in the United States
Port Reading Refinery
Port Reading Refinery (the United States)
CountryUnited States
StateNew Jersey
CityPerth Amboy and Port Reading
Coordinates40°33′50″N 74°14′56″W / 40.564°N 74.249°W / 40.564; -74.249
Refinery details
Owner(s)Hess Corporation
Commissioned1958
Decommissioned2013

Port Reading Refinery, also known as Hess Refinery (photo), was an oil refinery located in Perth Amboy and Port Reading, New Jersey. It was constructed by Hess Oil under Leon Hess in 1958. It was a simple refinery which further processed other refinery's product which began with heavy sour crude. It was owned by the Hess Corporation, refiners of Hess brand gasoline. The refinery itself had outlets that connected with Arthur Kill, enabling oil barges to make passage into the refinery's commons. The refinery had a neon red "HESS" sign on its cracking unit which was removed in December, 2013 after the property was sold. The refinery was closed in February 2013.[1]

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  1. ^ "Closure of Hess' Port Reading refinery means layoffs for 170 employees". NJ.com. January 28, 2013. Retrieved 2014-01-07. Fallout from today's announcement that Hess will permanently close its Woodbridge petroleum refinery by the end of next month was swift ...
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