title: Hess Oil and Chemical
Leon Hess
John B. Hess
Hess Corporation
Intuit
Hess Tower
Shannon LNG
Port Reading Refinery
David T. Wilentz
Newark Energy Center
sentences: Hess Oil and Chemical Corporation was a company begun in the 1930s by Leon Hess of New Jersey to distribute heating oil.
 It expanded over the years to include refining and marketing of heating oil and other petroleum products through terminals and gasoline stations.
 In 1968, Hess Oil and Chemical Corporation merged with Amerada Petroleum Corporation into Amerada Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES).
 Since 2006, the merged company has been called Hess Corporation.
 Before the merger, Hess Oil and Chemical developed the Hess Oil Virgin Islands Corporation (HOVIC) Refinery on St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands, at the time the largest oil refinery in the world.
 After 1998 the refinery built by HOVIC operated under the name HOVENSA.
 It is a joint venture with PDVSA and is 50% owned by Hess Corporation.
 HOVENSA announced plans to close later on in the year on January 18, 2012.
Leon Hess (March 14, 1914 – May 7, 1999) was the founder of the Hess Corporation and the owner of the New York Jets.
John Barnett Hess (born April 5, 1954) is the CEO of Hess Corporation.
Hess Corporation (formerly Amerada Hess Corporation) is an American global independent energy company engaged in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas.
 Hess, headquartered in New York City, placed #394 in the 2016 list of Fortune 500 corporations.
 In 2014, Hess completed a multi-year transformation to an exploration and production company by exiting all downstream operations, generating approximately $13 billion from assets sales beginning in 2013.
 Hess sold its gas station network to Marathon Petroleum (which operates under the retail brand Speedway); sold its wholesale and retail oil, natural gas and electricity marketing business to Direct Energy; closed its refineries in Port Reading NJ and St. Croix USVI (Hovensa JV with PDVSA); sold its bulk storage and terminalling business mostly to Buckeye Partners; and sold its 50% interests in two New Jersey power plants to their respective JV partners (Bayonne Energy Center: ArcLight Capital and Newark Energy Center: Ares EIF).
 Hess also sold its 50% interest in its JV commodities trading arm HETCO (Hess Energy Trading Company) to Oaktree Capital.
 HETCO is now known as Hartree Partners.
Intuit Inc. is a business and financial software company that develops and sells financial, accounting and tax preparation software and related services for small businesses, accountants and individuals.
 The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
 Greater than 95% of its revenues and earnings come from its activities within the United States.
Hess Tower is a 29-story building located adjacent to Discovery Green park in downtown Houston, Texas.
 It was formerly called Discovery Tower until Hess Corporation leased the entire tower in January 2009.
Shannon LNG is proposing to develop a Liquefied natural gas receiving terminal on the Shannon Estuary near Ballylongford and Tarbert in County Kerry to be built and operated by Shannon LNG Ltd, a company owned 50/50 by Hess LNG a subsidiary of the US multinational Hess Corporation and US hydrocarbons trading and transportation company Poten & Partners Inc.
Port Reading Refinery, also known as Hess Refinery, was an oil refinery located in Perth Amboy and Port Reading, New Jersey.
 It was constructed by Hess Oil under Leon Hess in 1958.
 It is a simple refinery which further processes other refinery's product which begins with heavy sour crude.
 It is owned by the Hess Corporation, refiners of Hess brand gasoline.
 The refinery itself has outlets that connect with Arthur Kill, enabling oil barges to make passage into the refinery's commons.
 The refinery had a neon red "HESS" sign on its cracking unit which was removed in December, 2013 after the property was sold.
 The refinery will closed in 2013.
David Theodore Wilentz (December 21, 1894 – July 6, 1988) was the Attorney General of New Jersey from 1934 to 1944.
 In 1935 he successfully prosecuted Bruno Hauptmann in the Lindbergh kidnapping trial.
 He was the father of Robert Wilentz, Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1979 to 1996, as well as Norma Hess, wife of Leon Hess, founder of Hess Corporation and Warren Wilentz
The Newark Energy Center is a 655-megawatt gas fired power plant in Newark, New Jersey.
 Approved in 2011, with construction beginning in 2012 it began commercial operations in May 2015.
 It is situated on a 23 acre brownfield east of Doremus Avenue next to a Hess oil terminal on the Passaic River.
 It was originally built as a joint venture between Hess Corporation and Energy Investors Fund, and it was taken over the latter in 2014.

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 Hess Oil and Chemical Corporation was a company begun in the 1930s by Leon Hess of New Jersey to distribute heating oil.
 It expanded over the years to include refining and marketing of heating oil and other petroleum products through terminals and gasoline stations.
 In 1968, Hess Oil and Chemical Corporation merged with Amerada Petroleum Corporation into Amerada Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES).
 Since 2006, the merged company has been called Hess Corporation.
 Before the merger, Hess Oil and Chemical developed the Hess Oil Virgin Islands Corporation (HOVIC) Refinery on St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands, at the time the largest oil refinery in the world.
 After 1998 the refinery built by HOVIC operated under the name HOVENSA.
 It is a joint venture with PDVSA and is 50% owned by Hess Corporation.
 HOVENSA announced plans to close later on in the year on January 18, 2012. 

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 Leon Hess (March 14, 1914 – May 7, 1999) was the founder of the Hess Corporation and the owner of the New York Jets. 

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 Hess Corporation (formerly Amerada Hess Corporation) is an American global independent energy company engaged in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas.
 Hess, headquartered in New York City, placed #394 in the 2016 list of Fortune 500 corporations.
 In 2014, Hess completed a multi-year transformation to an exploration and production company by exiting all downstream operations, generating approximately $13 billion from assets sales beginning in 2013.
 Hess sold its gas station network to Marathon Petroleum (which operates under the retail brand Speedway); sold its wholesale and retail oil, natural gas and electricity marketing business to Direct Energy; closed its refineries in Port Reading NJ and St. Croix USVI (Hovensa JV with PDVSA); sold its bulk storage and terminalling business mostly to Buckeye Partners; and sold its 50% interests in two New Jersey power plants to their respective JV partners (Bayonne Energy Center: ArcLight Capital and Newark Energy Center: Ares EIF).
 Hess also sold its 50% interest in its JV commodities trading arm HETCO (Hess Energy Trading Company) to Oaktree Capital.
 HETCO is now known as Hartree Partners. 

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 Intuit Inc. is a business and financial software company that develops and sells financial, accounting and tax preparation software and related services for small businesses, accountants and individuals.
 The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
 Greater than 95% of its revenues and earnings come from its activities within the United States. 

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 Hess Tower is a 29-story building located adjacent to Discovery Green park in downtown Houston, Texas.
 It was formerly called Discovery Tower until Hess Corporation leased the entire tower in January 2009. 

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 Shannon LNG is proposing to develop a Liquefied natural gas receiving terminal on the Shannon Estuary near Ballylongford and Tarbert in County Kerry to be built and operated by Shannon LNG Ltd, a company owned 50/50 by Hess LNG a subsidiary of the US multinational Hess Corporation and US hydrocarbons trading and transportation company Poten & Partners Inc. 

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 Port Reading Refinery, also known as Hess Refinery, was an oil refinery located in Perth Amboy and Port Reading, New Jersey.
 It was constructed by Hess Oil under Leon Hess in 1958.
 It is a simple refinery which further processes other refinery's product which begins with heavy sour crude.
 It is owned by the Hess Corporation, refiners of Hess brand gasoline.
 The refinery itself has outlets that connect with Arthur Kill, enabling oil barges to make passage into the refinery's commons.
 The refinery had a neon red "HESS" sign on its cracking unit which was removed in December, 2013 after the property was sold.
 The refinery will closed in 2013. 

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 The Newark Energy Center is a 655-megawatt gas fired power plant in Newark, New Jersey.
 Approved in 2011, with construction beginning in 2012 it began commercial operations in May 2015.
 It is situated on a 23 acre brownfield east of Doremus Avenue next to a Hess oil terminal on the Passaic River.
 It was originally built as a joint venture between Hess Corporation and Energy Investors Fund, and it was taken over the latter in 2014. 

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Answer: American