 The last refinery to be built from the ground up in the U.S., it is located about south of Blaine and northwest of Ferndale, a few miles south of the Canada–US border, on the Strait of Georgia between Birch Bay and Lummi Bay.Completed in 1971, its design and construction was overseen by George W. Glade, CEO and President of Parsons Constructors, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Ralph M. Parsons Company.It is the fourth largest refinery on the West Coast, and is the last major oil refinery built in the United States.