Swansea, Mumbles & the Gower CoastOfficial album guide . Tankers in the Queens Dock, Swansea By courtesy of the Angto-Iranitm Oil Co. Ltd. Oil Refininq The stor\- of the petroleum refining industry at Swansea from its inception isa real romance which deserves more space than can be given in this explorer, the geologist, the engineer and the chemist have all played theirpart in the establishment of this local industrv since the discoverv of the Iranianoilfields in 1902 by the representatives of Mr. W. K. D.\rcy, whose name isincorporated in that of the great refinerv at Llandarcv—a fe
Swansea, Mumbles & the Gower CoastOfficial album guide . Tankers in the Queens Dock, Swansea By courtesy of the Angto-Iranitm Oil Co. Ltd. Oil Refininq The stor\- of the petroleum refining industry at Swansea from its inception isa real romance which deserves more space than can be given in this explorer, the geologist, the engineer and the chemist have all played theirpart in the establishment of this local industrv since the discoverv of the Iranianoilfields in 1902 by the representatives of Mr. W. K. D.\rcy, whose name isincorporated in that of the great refinerv at Llandarcv—a few miles fromSwansea—belonging to the National Oil Refineries Limited, a subsidiary of theAnglo-Iranian Oil Companv Limited. In its great tank farm seventy-five million gallons 01 crude oil can be storedready for the process of refining which transforms it into fuel and lubricants formillions of motor-cars and power units of all kinds. The refinery itself, opened in 1922, is an outstanding example of modern industrialdevelopment, producing a wide ra
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