text: Refining In 1960 the company partnered with Standard Oil Co. of California (SOCAL) to build the Irving Oil Refinery on the east side of Saint John. Irving bought out SOCAL's share of the refinery in the late 1980s and expanded the facility to become Canada's largest refinery, processing over .  In the late 1990s, the refinery was upgraded to create some of North America's lowest-emission petroleum.
  Since 1970 the refinery has been served by the Canaport crude oil receiving terminal southeast of Saint John.  In 2009 this facility was expanded to host the Canaport LNG terminal for importing liquefied natural gas (LNG).
  Irving Oil announced in fall 2006 that it had purchased more land near Canaport and was examining the feasibility of constructing another  refinery in the area to complement the original modernized 1960s-era refinery in the east end of Saint John; the new refinery was to be named the "Eider Rock Refinery" and was to be built under a partnership between Irving Oil and BP plc. On July 24, 2009 both companies announced that they were indefinitely postponing plans to build the second refinery.
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  Irving Oil's core retail area is in northeast North America and is well served by a network of regional ports and harbours in Atlantic Canada, Quebec and New England - an area that is under-served by pipelines.  Consequently, the company economically transports much of its petroleum products to regional distribution terminals at ports throughout the region using its own fleet of coastal tankers.