World's Largest Oil Refinery Rises From Desert.Excavating for foundations alongside the cooling water lines.The building of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's new oil refinery here - largest oil refinery in the world - requires the pumping sahore of 5,500,000 cubic yards of Band; the moving of 2,000,000 cubic yards of earth; the quarrying of 1,500,000 tons of rock; the use of 30,000 tons of cement and 110,000 tons of steel. When completed the refinery will be capable of handling five million tons of crude oil every year. February 22, 1954. (Photo by United Press Photo).