The BEST Place To Stop For Gas For Private Planes
Bill Allen
Dumas, Texas? Where's that? Middle of the Texas panhandle, 50 miles north of Amarillo:
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| Nashville to Las Vegas via Dumas, Texas |
The Valero McKee Oil Refinery is seven miles northeast of Dumas. The land is so flat you can see the refinery from Dumas. The site looks about like you might expect:
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| Valero McKee Oil Refinery |
The Center for Land Use Interpretation gives us a short summary:
This oil refinery, located on 5,000 acres near the Panhandle town of Sunray, is one of a few refineries in western Texas. It has a capacity of 200,000 barrels per day, making it medium-large relative to the others in the State. It employs around 450 people, and produces a wide range of petroleum products including gasoline, jet fuel, diesel, asphalt, sulfur, sulfuric acid, and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). It is connected to a network of pipelines that bring crude oil from Kansas, Colorado, and Oklahoma, as well as from the Gulf, and the Permian Basin. Most of its products leave the plant via pipeline as well. It is likely the most widely connected of the dozen refineries owned by Valero in the USA. Valero, based in San Antonio, is one of the largest refiners in the country.
Looking for pictures of this place I found some cool images, so I uploaded them to Jigsaw Planet.
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| McKee Refinery 1 |
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