Location next to water may be for a variety of reasons depending on the age of the facility, which might have included shipping via water, cheap real estate (pre-Wetlands Act filled swamp), or the ability to use water in industrial processes. Any or all may apply. Living near water has not been generally desireable for most folks until the last few decades, especially if there were swamps or marshes in the area, simply because of the mosquitoes, damp, and what was perceived as potential for disease. I think the general smells associated with the seafood industry have been part of that, but as areas once considered to be declasse and industrial gain popularity for those who want recreational acccess or prestige, that focus has shifted, and even seafood industry interests are being displaced in some areas by luxury condos and marinas for pleasure craft. (Classic real estate buy low, develop and sell high strategy, making the undesireable area desireable with development to keep the high rent herd on the move--and profits up).
Money is not the only item in the equation, and despite those resources, a hostile media has made it more difficult (invoking the ubiquitous evil modifier of "Big"), as well as the tremendous resources of those organizations which exist solely to impede industrial development, and they are legion.
You might want to check the refinery math there, the average stock tank barrel of crude (42 gallons) only yields about 20 gallons of gasoline, and 40,000 barrels of crude would only give up about 800,000 gallons of gas.
To get 8 million gallons of gas, they'd need to refine more like 400,000 barrels of crude. The odds are real good that much of that is pipelined out.
Funny, that's what they say the numbers are. Must be a misprint.
Well, have a nice weekend, I'm out of here until Monday.