CountryMark is an

agricultural cooperative An agricultural cooperative, also known as a farmers' co-op, is a producer cooperative in which farmers pool their resources in certain areas of activities. A broad typology of agricultural cooperatives distinguishes between agricultural servic ...

firm, headquartered in

Indianapolis Indianapolis ( ), colloquially known as Indy, is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Indiana, most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana, Marion ...

, that operates in the United States

crude oil Petroleum, also known as crude oil or simply oil, is a naturally occurring, yellowish-black liquid chemical mixture found in geological formations, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons. The term ''petroleum'' refers both to naturally occurring u ...

and

oil refinery An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial processes, industrial process Factory, plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refining, refined into products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, Bitumen, asphalt base, ...

businesses. Its chief asset is an oil refinery in

Mount Vernon, Indiana Mount Vernon is a city in and the county seat of Posey County, Indiana, United States. Located in the state's far southwestern corner, within of both the southernmost or westernmost points, it is the westernmost city in the state. The southernm ...

, which is fitted to process 34,000 barrels-per-day of crude from the

Illinois Basin The Illinois Basin is a Paleozoic depositional and structural basin in the United States, centered in and underlying most of the state of Illinois, and extending into southwestern Indiana and western Kentucky. The basin is elongate, extending a ...

, a series of small oilfields in southeastern

Illinois Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. It borders on Lake Michigan to its northeast, the Mississippi River to its west, and the Wabash River, Wabash and Ohio River, Ohio rivers to its ...

, southwestern

Indiana Indiana ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north and northeast, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the s ...

, and western

Kentucky Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the ...

. In addition to refining oil and retailing oil products, its fleet of trucks gathers crude oil from Illinois Basin producers and, in 2008, acquired the

Evansville Evansville is a city in Vanderburgh County, Indiana, United States, and its county seat. With a population of 118,414 at the 2020 census, it is Indiana's third-most populous city after Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, the most populous city in S ...

-based company Core Minerals and entered the business of searching for and directly producing crude oil. CountryMark also owns a finished product pipeline, running from the refinery in Mount Vernon to

Peru, Indiana Peru is a city in, and the county seat of, Miami County, Indiana, Miami County, Indiana, United States. It is north of Indianapolis. The population was 11,073 at the 2020 census, making it the most populous community in Miami County. Peru is loc ...

. CountryMark has terminals at the refinery, along the pipeline at Switz City and

Jolietville, Indiana Jolietville is a neighborhood of Westfield, Indiana, in Washington Township, Hamilton County, Indiana. It was formerly an unincorporated community, but was annexed by Westfield in the late 2000s or early 2010s.

, and at the terminus of the pipeline at Peru. While CountryMark has historically specialized in the business of producing diesel motor fuels and lubricants that are attuned to the needs of agricultural machinery and farmer-drivers, Illinois Basin crude oil can be manufactured into a wide variety of products, and as of 2012 CountryMark has a small market share of the overall Indiana consumer market for oil products. CountryMark's self-image is that of the only "American-owned" oil refinery in Indiana. There are two oil refineries in Indiana; the other one, which has a processing capacity of 18x that of CountryMark's Mount Vernon refinery, is owned by BP plc, a

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firm.

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