From the Philadelphia Inquirer: "There was a time, just a few years ago, when the Philadelphia region's refineries were facing closure. But now shale energy is helping reenergize the region's manufacturing base with the revival of several of those facilities." Examples? "Over the last two years, Delta Airlines snapped up the former ConocoPhillips refinery in Trainer, promising to invest $350 million in the facility and employ about 400 full-time workers. The old Sunoco refinery in South Philadelphia avoided a permanent shutdown and the elimination of 850 jobs when Sunoco and the Carlyle Group created a joint venture at the facility to import lower-cost oil from North Dakota's Bakken formation and use natural gas from the Marcellus Shale."
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