The Gorilla Is Unmasked

A secretive project dubbed “The Gorilla” by inhabitants of Elk Point, S.D., turns out to be a planned 400,000 barrel-a-day oil refinery. That’s right. Do not adjust your computer monitor. A refinery. If actually built, it would be the first new one in this country since Marathon Oil (NYSE: MRO) opened its Garyville, La., plant in 1976.