San Joaquin Refining Co.

 

Located in Bakersfield, CA, San Joaquin Refining has the favorable position of refining only San Joaquin Valley Heavy Naphthenic crude oil. The San Joaquin Valley consists of many oil-producing counties. Kern County is not only the largest oil-producing county in the San Joaquin Valley, but also the largest oil-producing county in all of California. If Kern County was a state in its own right, it would rank behind Texas, Alaska, and Louisiana as the fourth largest oil producer in the country, producing approximately 400,000 barrels of crude oil per day, representing 6% of the nation’s oil production and 1% of the total world’s production.