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Chevron El Segundo Refinery

The refinery that named the town 'the Second'. El Segundo exists because Standard Oil put its second California refinery here; the plant still covers about a thousand acres and fuels a big share of Southern California's planes and cars.

The facts

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Where	South half of El Segundo, along Vista del Mar and El Segundo Blvd, El Segundo
Built	1911
Architect or builder	Unavailable
Kind	Rockets, labs and industry
Status	standing
Visiting	exterior only
From El Segundo City Hall	0.9 miles, straight line
Coordinates	33.91, -118.405 (approximate)

What the sources say

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The refinery was built in 1911. The El Segundo Refinery was built in 1911. Chevron El Segundo ↗ fact
It covers roughly 1,000 acres. Approximately 1,000 acres Chevron El Segundo ↗ fact
It supplies 40% of Southern California's jet fuel and about a fifth of the region's gasoline market. The El Segundo Refinery supplies 40% of the jet fuel and has 20% of the gasoline market share in Southern California. Chevron El Segundo ↗ fact
The city's name ('the second') comes from its being Standard Oil's second West Coast refinery. The city acquired its name ("the second" in Spanish) due to being the second Standard Oil refinery on the West Coast Wikipedia ↗ reported

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Nearby on the list

Closest entries, straight line

Smoky Hollow, El Segundo 0.7 mi
Old Town Music Hall, El Segundo 0.9 mi
The Aerospace Corporation campus, El Segundo 1.3 mi

← No. 2: Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant · No. 4: SpaceX Hawthorne factory → · All on the map

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Chevron El Segundo Refinery. elsegundo.xyz Architecture, checked Nov 3, 2026. https://elsegundo.xyz/architecture/chevron-el-segundo-refinery/

Machine-readable: this entry is record 3 in catalog.json. Not an official City of El Segundo page, and not written with or for the owner.