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San Joaquin Refining Co., Inc. (also styled “San Joaquin Refining Company”)  is an independent specialty refiner headquartered in Bakersfield, California, founded in 1969 with the mission of processing local heavy naphthenic crude oil into premium naphthenic specialty oils. The company operates a single manufacturing site in Bakersfield (San Joaquin Refinery) with integrated manufacturing, sales, and support operations, plus a tank farm of over 90 tanks totaling 800,000 barrels of storage. Through acquisitions and product-line expansion it supplies dozens of industries worldwide; historically this included the 2002 acquisition of Golden Bear Oil Specialties (Oildale, CA), renamed Tricor Refining, LLC. SJR describes itself as an “independent refiner with manufacturing, sales, and support operations located in Bakersfield, California.”

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