ALDW), which owns a crude oil refinery in Big Spring, Texas, with a crude oil throughput capacity of 73,000 barrels per day and an integrated wholesale…. Texas is known as an oil and gas state and with oil and gas production comes the need for refineries. As of January 2014, there were 136 oil refineries operating in the United States and 29 of those are found in Texas. What Oil Refineries Are In Texas? Below is a list of the active oil refineries in Texas, as well as their operator, location, year of construction, barrels of oil per day capacity, and number of workers.