Paramount Petroleum Corporation was headquartered in Paramount, Los Angeles County, California.
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/ref> It operated a refinery at that location, and was the largest seller of asphalt
Asphalt most often refers to:
* Bitumen, also known as "liquid asphalt cement" or simply "asphalt", a viscous form of petroleum mainly used as a binder in asphalt concrete
* Asphalt concrete, a mixture of bitumen with coarse and fine aggregates, u ...
in California. [
Paramount also operated a refinery near ]Portland, Oregon
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, as well as several marketing terminals in the Western United States. [
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Company
Paramount had been a subsidiary of Alon USA, a publicly traded refining and marketing company (NYSE:ALJ), since 2006.[ The president of the company was Alan P Moret.][ The company was largely financed by two prominent multi billionaires of the United States.
]Delek US
Delek US Holdings, Inc. is an oil refining, logistics and biofuels company founded in 2001 and headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee.
The company has a platform consisting of:
* Four oil refineries with approximately 300,000 barrels per day of ...
acquired Alon USA in 2017.
References
Oil companies of the United States
Companies based in Los Angeles County, California
Paramount, California
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