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To ensure that these imported supplies safely reach our shores , the Department of Defense is devoting an ever increasing share of its troops and resources to the defense of foreign pipelines , refineries , loading platforms , and tanker routes . The volume decline was due to the sales of the company 's Philadelphia refinery in August 1994 and its Port Arthur , Texas , refinery in February 1995 , in connection with a major restructuring of U.S. refining and marketing operations . She later became a managing director in investment banking at Chase , leading a team that arranged financing for power plants , pipelines , refineries and Major League baseball parks . In certain instances , refineries rely on meters located in the terminals for a determination of quantities delivered . His ownership of oil wells , refineries , and pipelines gave him a dominant position in the American petroleum industry . We offer complete one-stop solutions for production , LNG , transportation , storage , refineries , petrochemical and distribution systems , as well as total pipeline integrity solutions including analysis and pipeline asset management . In 1996 , refinery operations were much improved ; however , margins remained weak due to competitive market conditions , increased crude oil costs , and in California , the increased manufacturing cost of state-mandated cleaner burning gasolines . Research in environmental biotechnology has lead to the development and scale-up of processes for biodegradation of recalcitrant chemicals , refinery petroleum sludges and biosolids leading to the establishment of three spin-off companies ( see below ) .