Tesoro Refining

Salt Lake City, UT

(Associated names Lubra Oils Manufacturing, Utah Oil Refining Company, Utoco, Standard Oil of Indiana, American Oil Company, Amoco, BP-Amoco)

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Built by Lubra Oils Manufacturing Company in 1908 and purchased by Utah Oil Refining Company in 1909, the refinery now owned by Tesoro has been in operation for over one hundred years in the Salt Lake City area.  From producing seven barrels per day when it first opened, the refinery has steadily increased its capacity to its current production rate of 63,000 barrels per day.

The refinery currently employs approximately 250 workers.

Address or general location

474 West 900 North, Salt Lake City, Utah

Detail

For a good part of the refinery’s early history, Utah Oil Refining Company (later Utah Oil Company), operated the facility.  Over time, the refinery changed names several times.  A subsidiary of Standard Oil Company of Indiana (“Standard Oil”), the Utah Oil Company changed its name to Utoco in the 1940s.  In the early 1960s, the Utah Oil Company was officially absorbed by Standard Oil, which had changed its name to the American Oil Company (Amoco).  In 2001, Tesoro bought the refinery and continues to operate the refinery.