Everyone, it seemed, was a roughneck, or employed by a drilling company or one of the local refineries.

With no local refineries, Union Oil initially shipped gasoline to the islands but would later build a terminal in Iwilei for gasoline storage.

The oil went to small local refineries which marketed the gasoline locally through a network of service stations using the same brand name.

Until it closed in the 1980's, a local refinery had employed 500.

He said his Russian-Chechen patrol had recently caught a group of thieves trying to steal gasoline from a local refinery.

To get fuel from the local refinery, the village barters its sugar crop for oil.

His father was an operating engineer at a local refinery.

The 8,000 barrels of oil it uses daily must be hauled all the way along the Amazon river to a local refinery that has become inadequate.

A small-scale local refinery distilled the heavy goo into usable products.

Home built and operated a local refinery until 1881.